January 24, 2018

It should be noted that on this day something wonderful has left this world. My brother Nathan James Adams has passed into the loving arms of God. He was a good man. Like the man he was named after he held no evil within him. He was the best of us and will be mightily missed.

He was known by Nathan or Nate to all of his friends but to his family he was Jamie. He was our good nature humor and our conscious. The standard that I looked to when judging the rightness of my decisions was set by him. This will forever be the case whether he is living or not as he will always be with me in my heart and head to help guide me in my life and show me what to love and cherish and what is real or frivolous.

In my childhood when my mother and father divorced he became more than my brother, he filled the space in my life that only he could have and became father to me. He always felt some responsibility to take care of me and make sure that I was alright even in the last chapter of his life. I owe him a great debt for the sacrifice that doing that must have taken of him. Many of the things that are good about me came from him.

During the last of his life I was able to spend time with him and reconnect. It has been one of the greatest joys of my life. It was not that we did anything except go out to eat or spend time watching TV, we just spent time together as brothers and
friends. During the times when I would need to do the things that his Parkinson's disease would prevent him from being able to do for which we all take for granted, I felt a tremendous honor to be there for him to help preserve his dignity and grace. When we were together I could always feel the love and camaraderie that we shared and can still feel it now.

I take some comfort in the fact that not only is he in the hands of God and Jesus Christ that he is also reunited with Nathan James Mitsch our grandfather. Where I'm sure they are sitting on couches, watching football and telling corny jokes or talking
about old cars or perhaps restoring some old furniture and eating the best applesauce that only grandpa can make.

I love you Jamie, my brother and friend. You have always been and will always be beloved. I miss you. You can start drinking soda again.

Jared Leon Adams his brother.