Funeral services for Lee Roy Adair, 81, of West Monroe, Louisiana will be held at 2:00 P.M. Sunday, August 22, 2021 in the chapel of Kilpatrick Funeral Home in West Monroe, Louisiana with Dr. Mark Fenn officiating.  Visitation will be 1:00 P.M. until service time. Interment will follow in Kilpatrick’s Serenity Gardens in West Monroe, Louisiana under the direction and care of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of West Monroe.

Lee Roy Adair was born on April 26, 1940 in Corpus Christie, Texas to Huey Lee and Mary Brooks Sawyer.  He was loved and raised by James Ernest and Mary Brooks Adair. He passed away August 16, 2021 from complications from Covid-19.

Lee Roy was preceded in death by his parents, James and Mary Adair and brother in law, Roger Randal (Randy) McLemore.  Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Margaret Camille Camp Adair; daughter, Allison Adair Taylor and her husband, Bryan; son, Bryan Scott Adair and his wife, Cheyenne; sister, Dona Adair Funderburk and her husband, Jim; grandchildren, Camille and Claire Taylor, Camp Adair, Braydon and Shawnee Slusser.

Lee Roy attended Crosley Elementary and West Monroe High School graduating in 1958.  At West Monroe High, Lee Roy served as the Representative of the 5^th District for Distributive Education and was elected State President of DE his senior year.  In the Spring of 1962, Lee Roy graduated Northeast Louisiana State College (now ULM) Pharmacy School and was drafted into the United States Army.  After basic training in Fort Polk, LA, Lee Roy was stationed at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA until August 1965 at which time he returned to Louisiana and married Margaret Camille Camp at First Baptist Church in West Monroe.

Working for Brooks Drugs, Nix-Cage Drugs and as Pharmacy Manager at Brookshires West Monroe, Lee Roy loved his profession and helping people. He often did “relief” work on his days off for fellow friends, pharmacists at various locations.  Some of that work included working for Louisville Pharmacy owned by Mr. Carso, a friend’s pharmacy in Jonesboro, Louisiana and later in life Lee was honored to help Mr. Tonore in Tallulah Louisiana. A stroke in 2013 left Lee Roy unable to continue to work as a pharmacist, but friends continued to call for advice.

Never able to be idle for too long, hobbies included growing orchids, bromeliads, daffodils and Japanese maples, riding his various Harley Davidson motorcycles, with the Road King being his favorite, any type of hunting with Randy, target shooting, raising cattle, goats and laying hens (except when he’d get calls at the pharmacy that goats were on Highway 80) and spending time with his favorite pet, Queen Molly, his beloved English Bulldog.

Throughout his life, Lee Roy was an active member of First Baptist Church West Monroe teaching high school boys Sunday school classes, serving as a Deacon and in later years as an Usher and Greeter.  He was faithful in supporting the work of the church and other Christian organizations through financial giving.

He loved WMHS and LSU football and teased that grandchild Camp would be an LSU quarterback someday.  He was so proud watching Camp play t-ball and basketball, seeing his two granddaughter’s academic achievements and watching them play every sport their schools offered and hearing of Braydon’s dedication and work ethic.

The family would like to express our gratitude to the medical and other staff at Saint Francis Hospital for your dedication and compassionate care through these unprecedented times.  You make our community a better place in which to live.

Pallbearers will be Jimmy Funderburk, Ken Brooks, Benjamin Brooks, and Brandon Brooks.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials made to Saint Francis Foundation First Floor, 309 Jackson Street, Monroe, LA 71201 or to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.

Psalm 121

I lift up my eyes to the hills- where does my help come from?

My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot slip-  He who watches over you will not slumber;

Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord watches over you-  The Lord is your shade at your right hand;

The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

The Lord will keep you from all harm- he will watch over your life;

The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Psalm 1: 1-3

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked

Or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose

Leaf does not wither.  Whatever he does prospers.