Laurie Adams Frost

Laurie Adams Frost, age 62, died in Asheville, NC on December 24, 2021, of complications from the progressive autoimmune disease Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC), a disease she had courageously battled over 15 years.

Laurie was born in Miami, Florida in 1958 to educators Joseph and Molly Adams, both now deceased, and was the sister of Daniel Adams and John Adams. She graduated Coral Gables High School (1976), Birmingham-Southern College (1980, inducted into Phi Beta Kappa), and Rice University (Member of “The Caperers”, Doctor of Philosophy-1987). As a friend has written, “She had a mind that knew no bounds”. She was whimsical, intelligent, introspective, and had profound artistic and emotional depth.

She married Mark Frost in April 1983 and moved to Huntsville, Alabama where she worked at Alabama A&M University as a Technical Editor. She gave birth to son Maxwell Frost in 1989 and daughter Iris Frost in 1995. They are the greatest achievements of her life and she was fiercely protective and proud of them. She moved to Asheville, NC in 2012 with Mark and Iris to escape the summer heat of Alabama (Successfully!). She served the Asheville community as a delivery driver for Meals on Wheels. She loved her pets, especially cats Tobias and Spike, and her dogs Rascal and Silas. One of her greatest joys was walking Wade Mountain trails with Rascal.

Her primary interests during her life, beyond her family, were the Three-B’s: Beatles, Books, and Bowie. In her youth, she had a lock of hair from one of the Beatles! Her dissertation at Rice was on the concept of memory in Anthony Powell’s novels. She was the author of an acclaimed book “The Definitive Guide to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials”, Scholastic, 2019, which was lauded by Philip Pullman as his guide to his own material. She was known as “the Bowiesattva” to her David Bowie community, and her writings on Bowie are at “Bowiesattva.com”. She also loved crime mystery novels and British TV shows.

Her memory will be cherished by family and friends, including Mark Frost, Maxwell Frost and his wife Alana Frost, Iris Frost, Daniel Adams and his wife Olga Adams, John Adams and his wife Franca Bellarsi, brother-in-law David Frost and his wife Anne Frost, sister-in-law Mary Watson, brother-in-law John Frost and his wife Linda Frost, and brother-in-law Charles Frost and his wife Elizabeth Frost. She loved her nieces and nephews tremendously, and was proud of their accomplishments and growth. Laurie’s friend Dr. Jennifer Gwozdz of Houston is also remembered as a sister from another mother, who maintained a loving relationship through communications, books, and visits for 40 years. Other loved friends who enhanced her life include Leslie Sternlieb, Steven Clar, Catherine Bodkin, Sally Reames, Simone Azar, Dorah Rosen, Aulton Smith, Laurence Kopelvitch, Linda Leavell, Talmadge Walker, Marsha Lee Recknagel, Moragh Orr Montoya, Elise Windus, J. Lacy Landers-Oaks, Bonnie and Dan Peirce, the Castillo family, Gary DeVore, Jeff and Ann-Marie Kilpatrick, Rori Stevens, and many others.

Her remains will be cremated and kept by Mark Frost.

“There’s a starman waiting in the sky” – David Bowie