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In January 1968, Robert Adam, Sr., a lawyer and [[World War II]] veteran, and Robert's two daughters, Mary Canon "Nan" Adam (1949-1968) and Margaret "Peggy" Adam (1959-1968), perished in a house fire. Robert rescued his wife, Ann Bell Adam (1924-1968), but she died five months later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=117115373|title=Robert Borden Adam, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> Bidwell Adam's grandson, Robert B. "Robin" Adam, Jr. (1947-2001), a former long-term resident of [[California]], died at the age of fifty-four in an automobile accident in [[Phoenix]], [[Arizona]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52374827|title=Robert B. Adam, Jr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>

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Jack Capers Adam, the youngest son of Bidwell and Edna Adam, was stricken with asthma as a boy and sent from Pass Christian to Phoenix, where he was educated at the Southern Arizona School for Boys and became thereafter an [[Episcopalian]] priest. He worked to establish St. Jude's Ranch for Children in Boulder City, [[Nevada]], with financial help from such luminaries as the comedians [[Bob Hope]] and Jack Benny (1894-1974) and the newspaper publisher Hank Greenspun. Known as "Father Jack" he subsequently left the Episcopal Church because of his opposition to the ordination of women, a policy implemented in 1976. He then became a [[Roman Catholic]]. He relocated to Mesa, Arizona to operate a jewelry store and continued mostly anonymous contributions to St. Jude's Ranch and youth causes. He died three days before his 75th birthday and is interred at Boulder City Cemetery. Jack Adam was survived by his wife of fifty-seven years, Ranelle Adam, and a daughter, Nancy A. Porter, both of Boulder City. A second daughter as well as his two brothers predeceased him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2007/oct/09/capers-adam-1932-2007/|title=Jack Capers Adam (1932-2007), October 9, 2007|publisher=''The Las Vegas Sun''|accessdate=~~May 9~~, ~~2014~~}}</ref>

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Jack Capers Adam, the youngest son of Bidwell and Edna Adam, was stricken with asthma as a boy and sent from Pass Christian to Phoenix, where he was educated at the Southern Arizona School for Boys and became thereafter an [[Episcopalian]] priest. He worked to establish St. Jude's Ranch for Children in Boulder City, [[Nevada]], with financial help from such luminaries as the comedians [[Bob Hope]] and Jack Benny (1894-1974) and the newspaper publisher Hank Greenspun. Known as "Father Jack" he subsequently left the Episcopal Church because of his opposition to the ordination of women, a policy implemented in 1976. He then became a [[Roman Catholic]]. He relocated to Mesa, Arizona to operate a jewelry store and continued mostly anonymous contributions to St. Jude's Ranch and youth causes. He died three days before his 75th birthday and is interred at Boulder City Cemetery. Jack Adam was survived by his wife of fifty-seven years, Ranelle Adam, and a daughter, Nancy A. Porter, both of Boulder City. A second daughter as well as his two brothers predeceased him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2007/oct/09/capers-adam-1932-2007/|title=Jack Capers Adam (1932-2007)|date-October 9, 2007|publisher=''The Las Vegas Sun''|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>

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