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Note: taken from the Charleston News and Courier December 4, 1929.
Funeral services for Lamar Felton Adair, 48, who died suddenly Monday morning will take place this afternoon (Wednesday) at 3 o'clock from the residence of his sister, Mrs. J.R. Gready, Jr., at 16-B Elizabeth Street. The Reverend William Way, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, will conduct the services. Interment will be at Magnolia Cemetery.
Mr. Adair was engaged in waterfront activities practically all his life and had a host of friends among those connected with shipping interest in Charleston. For the past several years, Mr. Adair had been superintendent of terminals for the J.A. Dohlen Steamship Company.
Mr Adair was a native Charlestonian. He is survived by five sisters: Mrs. J.R. Gready, Jr., of Charleston; Mrs. A.P. Duggan and Mrs. A.L. Nelson of Washington, D.C.; Mrs. A.L. Moisson of Philadelphia; Mrs. A.W. Wynne of Panama Canal Zone; and one brother, L.W. Adair of 196 St. Philip's Street, Charleston.
The following will serve as pallbearers at the funeral: J.A. von Dohlen, Robert B. Comar, Gerard van Buren and James R. Roberts.
Bess Alethia Gready in her family notes had the following comment:
Lamar Felton Adair was the eldest sibling in the Capt. Lewis Henry Adair family. In 1899 at the age of 17 he was a clerk at H.P. Holmes Company and lived at home, 8 Water Street. Uncle Lamar was a gentle and soft-spoken man. He and my mother were fond of each other and he often had dinner at our house. He owned an Essex automobile and we would go for a ride in it every Sunday. Uncle Lamar never married. His cousin Maggie Stroud had a 'crush' on him, and he visited off and on in Beaufort, N.C. where she lived. Cousin Maggie finally married someone else. In his adult years, Uncle Lamar worked for the J.A. von Dohlen Steamship Company. He and his employer liked each other. Uncle Lamar died in his sleep December 2, 1929, calmly, as he had lived. He willed his car to my mother, Bessie. The wake was held at our house, at that time 16-B Elizabeth Street, and the 'body laid out' in our living room. For a long while I couldn't go in that room.
Note: He never married. He died of atherosclerosis. The following obituary was
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