Lina Signora Adams

Lina Signora Adams was born February 16, 1949 in Princeton, West Virginia. She was the youngest child of Joseph and Geneva Adams. They encouraged her as soon as she was beginning to read, to take music lessons which she continued to take for the next fifteen years. As a result of that, she played for her church at home and after moving to Huntington in 1971, she began to play for The Glorious Church of God in Christ as their pianist under the Pastorate of Mother Martha Johnson. She continued to play until her recent illness in 2021. When Lina reached college age at seventeen she always wanted to be a nurse after having several illnesses that resulted in multiple hospitalizations. She was so impressed by the nurses who would come into her room, she always said “I just want to be a nurse when I grow up.” The desire came to fruition in 1969 after graduating from Princeton High School, she attended Bluefield State College (HBCU) Bluefield, West Virginia and achieved her associate degree as an Registered Nurse. Lina moved to Huntington in 1971 and applied for a job at Cabell Huntington Hospital, where she continued to work for over forty years. During that time, she also achieved a bachelor of science degree in nursing at Marshall University. Her career included working in the intensive care unit for fifteen years, nurse educator, and instructor for two years at Marshall University. Lina has been a member of The Glorious Church OGIC Huntington, WV for over fifty years and has served in numerous capacities, such as choir director, church musician, Sunday School teacher, WV state youth auxiliary worker, and the current local Church Mother. She is presently confined to a wheelchair in a Kentucky nursing home.