Sally or Phyllis (Weber) Adamson (Barbara Philomena Weber) , 85, a longtime Arlington resident who did volunteer work for Hospice of Northern Virginia and the Navy Marine Corps Relief Society, died of cancer May 11, 2003 at Goodwin House West in Falls Church, Virginia.

Mrs. Adamson, who was born November 4, 1917 in Olney, Ill., daughter of Dr. George T. and Elizabeth (Hausner) Weber, lived in Arlington for 52 years before moving to Goodwin House West in July.

Over the years, she knitted leper bandages, layettes and baby blankets for the Navy Marine Corps Relief Society. She was active in Arlingtonians for a Better County. She worked as a correspondence administrator for a Catholic relief organization in the 1960s and 1970s. In the early 1960s, she worked as an aide to Rep. George E. Shipley (D-Ill).

Survivors include her husband, John H. Adamson of Falls Church; four children, Sally A. Burlingame of Colorado, Jane A. DeSelm of McLean, John Adamson of Strasburg, Va., and Robert Adamson of Arlington; a sister; Anne T. Weber Albers; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by nine sisters and five brothers and a daughter, Marjorie Cameron Adamson, died in 1956.

Funeral Mass held at St. Agnes Catholic Church, Arlington and a memorial service held at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Arlington, VA

Cremation rites were accorded.

Arlington Funeral Home, Arlington, VA & Washington Post – May 15-18, 2003