A funeral service is set today for Cornelia Municipal Court Judge Steven Adams, who died Friday in an accident involving an all-terrain vehicle.

The service is at 2 p.m. at Whitfield Funeral Home, South Chapel, at 1370 Industrial Blvd., Baldwin. Burial will follow in Level Grove Cemetery.

The family received friends Sunday at the funeral home.

Adams, a Lula resident, died in the accident Friday night in the 4100 block of Cagle Road in North Hall, Hall County Coroner Marion Merck said. He was 61.

A Habersham County native, he attended Habersham school and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, a New

Hampshire boarding school. He later graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., with a bachelor’s degree in political science.

Adams went on to earn his law degree from the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta.

A man of many tastes, he kept busy throughout the community.

In addition to the judgeship, Adams served on a bank’s board of directors, as past president of the Habersham County Rotary Club and as a charter member of the National Blues Society.

Adams was partial founder and developer of the Fourlanders Ham Radio Club. He also was a Baptist.

He is survived by his wife, two daughters, one son and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.