Wendell H. Adair Jr., ’69, 1944-2024
Wendell H. Adair Jr.
Wendell Hinton Adair Jr., 80, of St. Joseph died on Sunday, April 21, 2024.
He was born on March 17, 1944, in Fort Benning, Ga., the oldest of three children born to Wendell Sr., and Jackie Adair. He married Monica Adair (nee Evan) on Feb. 17, 2001, in Chicago.
Wendell graduated with honors from Emory University. He received his law degree from the University of Chicago and practiced corporate law in Chicago and New York. In the late 1980s, he fell in love with Sawyer, bought his future retirement house, and began making Michiana his home. After retiring from law, he and Monica moved to Sawyer full time. They began a small business, investing and building houses in the Sawyer area. He and Monica enjoyed traveling the world – from New Zealand to Russia to Paris to Key West and California – but they loved returning home to their friends and family in Michigan.
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