Rose Brown Adams embraced and lived life to the fullest. Friends and loved ones remember her as being energetic, entrepreneurial and always willing to help others.

Still shaken by her recent death, her husband, Dr. Randy Adams, a Richmond pediatric dentist, said he has lost his best friend.

“I lost my sporting and traveling partner, my wife and my lover,” he said.

The couple was married on June 4, 1977.

Mrs. Adams is being remembered following her death Friday, June 17, 2016. She was 68.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 23, at March Funeral Home, 2110 E. Laburnum Ave.

Her life and legacy will be celebrated 11 a.m. Friday, June 24, at Fifth Baptist Church, 1415 W. Cary St. Interment will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

The Richmond Free Press featured Dr. and Mrs. Adams earlier this year in its annual Valentine’s “Love Stories,” Feb. 11-13 edition.

In the article, they wrote: “We have lived a wonderful and blessed life together and continue to ‘live life.’ Our new motto: Live and love life while remembering the friendship you shared in the very beginning.”

A graduate of Maggie L. Walker High School, Mrs. Adams received a bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s degree in guidance from Virginia Commonwealth University. While her career started at Nabisco Inc., her entrepreneurial spirit led her to open Tutti Frutti, a yogurt and sandwich shop in the 6th Street Marketplace in Downtown and later at Innsbrook.

After working several years as an entrepreneur, Mrs. Adams began a teaching career at the Adult Career Development Center. She later became a guidance counselor at G.H. Reid and Ginter Park elementary schools.

Dr. Adams said his wife enjoyed volunteer work and board service, which included the Richmond Metropolitan Business League. She was a member of the Epicureans Inc., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. and a charter member of the Commonwealth Chapter of The Links Inc.

She also was a member of several VCU sports booster organizations, including VCU Women for Women’s Athletics.

In addition to her husband, survivors include two daughters, Taryn Blount of Richmond and Taasha Taylor of Atlanta, five grandchildren, and one brother, Fred D. Brown Jr.