Obituary: Roger C. Adams Jr.

Roger C. Adams Jr., of West Simsbury, Connecticut, died at 92 on Aug. 20, 2026. Born in Norway, Maine, on Feb. 13, 1934, he was the son of Roger and Katharine Glines Adams and married Nancy Shumway Adams in the summer of 1955. A 1952 Gould Academy graduate in Bethel, Maine, he captained the football team and excelled in skiing, then attended Boston University where he captained the ski team and joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Adams worked 36 years at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford in purchasing, later consulting. He helped found the Satan’s Ridge Ski Area, later Ski Sundown, and led an annual tradition hiking Mt. Washington and skiing Tuckerman Ravine.