Background
Adams, Onie H. Powers was born on July 28, 1907 in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Daughter of William Perley and Lucy Jane (Ingram) Hixson.
Adams, Onie H. Powers was born on July 28, 1907 in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Daughter of William Perley and Lucy Jane (Ingram) Hixson.
BSHE, University Georgia, 1928. Master of Science in Public Health, University Georgia, 1931. Postgraduate, various colleges, Boston.
Science teacher, various schools and hospitals, 1928-1940; research fellow, U. Georgia Medical School, Augusta, 1929-1931; teacher, Children's Hospital, Augusta, 1929-1931; senior medical technician, administrator, Southside Community Hospital, Farmville, Virginia, 1932-1933; medical technician, Lynn (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1934-1940; serologist, instructor, United States Public Health Service Hospital, Boston, 1940-1953; biochemist, United States Public Health Service CLin. Center, Bethesda, Maryland., 1953-1954; biochemist, National Institutes of Health Cancer Institute, Bethesda, 1954-1967; biochemist, Medical Library. Detailed Information Sciences, Bethesda, 1967; retired, 1967.
Member American Chemical Society (emeritus), Clinical Chemistry Association (emeritus), New York. Academy of Sciences (life), National Institutes of Health Alumni Association (life), Graduate Women in Science, Inc. (life), Sigma Delta Epsilon.
Married George Arthur Powers, May 5, 1948 (deceased 1955). Married Elliott T. Adams, April 20, 1963 (deceased 1989).