Joseph B Paul Jr Funeral Service, Washington Funeral and Cremation Hillside4500 US Hwy 264 EWashington, NC

Roy Fletcher Adams, 57, a resident of Vanceboro, has gone to rest with his Lord on Wednesday September 14, 2022, after a four-month battle with injuries sustained in a car accident. The family will receive friends from 2:00pm 5:00pm on Sunday September 18, 2022 at Joseph B. Paul Jr. Funeral Service. A private interment will be held. On August fifth, 1965, Fletcher was born in Baltimore, Maryland to the late Annie and Atlas Adams. Along with his parents he is preceded in death by sister Maria Adams. Fletcher is survived by his godbrother: Stan Adams, his son: Spencer Adams, two brothers: Atlas Adams, Jr. and Thomas Locust; a sister: Renee Adams, Godmother, Eunice Adams, and his Ex-wife but still best-friend: Janet Adams. I can t write this obituary like a regular one, like we re insulated from it. This isn t routine. Its personal and it hits close to home.. We saw him day in and day out, one of the first ones to arrive and one of the last ones to leave. He was unfailingly upbeat and a good laugher. He was helpful and dogged, without complaint, and the extent to which he served this office has become vivid in his absence. He did so many things for us that we didn t even know he did. He kept his head down and did them, almost stealthily. Not sneakily -he just operated with the quiet precision and smooth hum of a well-oiled machine. Sometimes you can get too used to that hum; it becomes reliable background noise. So much so, that you almost take it for granted until it stops, and you re left sitting in the kind of overwhelming silence only found under water so deep that all light and direction are lost. Fletcher was our hum. But he was much more than our office manager. He was a father, he was a friend, he was very active in his church community. He loved to sing and dance, and did so with the praise team for five years and trained as a minister with the House of Pentecost, eventually becoming ordained in 2020. His earliest years were spent in Baltimore, before moving to Danville, Virginia around the age of five. A few years later his family found themselves anchored in Grifton, NC and it was here where he graduated high school a decade later. He attended college at both Shaw and Liberty colleges before attaining his bachelor s degree at Midwest Bible College. He had an eye for detail. For seeing the changes that needed to be made, like a painter eyeing a blank canvas, knowing where all the paint should go before even pulling out his brushes. For that reason, he was a great decorator and organizer. He was good at planning and putting things where they needed to go. Also he loved the sun. Heat. It was nothing to come in the office and see him with a heater going full blast with mittens, a scarf, and overcoat on. Fletcher its July! How can you have the heater on?! The surface of the sun is cooler than it is outside, and you have the heat on! He d cackle. I know. It s perfect. The man should have been born a lizard because there is nothing he would have enjoyed more than spending his time sunning himself on a nice flat rock. But he was human. So instead, he would mow his grass. Way more than it needed doing. He just liked to be outside in the sun. His lawn was pristine and his landscaping was enviable. He knew plants. Any time one of the flower people would walk through our doors, if you asked, he could drop knowledge on any one of the flowers at length. He knew what they were, how they behaved, and again, like a painter, he was passionate about their color and where they should go to look. He knew where things belonged, and we know where he belonged. We will miss you Fletcher. Joseph B. Paul Jr. Funeral Service is devastated at the loss of one of our own, but still, we are honored the Adams family trusted us to assist them in this tragic time.

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