Ada Alice Peacock Wells

Posted on November 30, 2023

Ada Alice Peacock Wells, 83, passed away at her home, with her husband holding her hand, on Nov. 28, 2023, in Tallahassee. Ada was born Feb. 22, 1940, in Perry to Dr. W.H. Peacock and Marina Burnett Peacock. She was native of Perry, but had lived in Tallahassee for the past 53 years. Ada Alice was the middle child of Dr. W.H. Peacock and Marina Peacock. They raised four girls and one boy, who the girls called “the king,” and who could do no wrong. Ada Alice and John started courting in high school, she was in the ninth grade and he was in the 10th. John said he stole her from the crib. She taught school in Perry when John entered the Army and then joined him in Columbia, S.C., until he transferred to the reserves. When John started working for Martin Marietta in Orlando, she taught there. Then back to Perry on the way to Memphis to teach and help support her husband while he was finishing his doctor’s degree. They moved to Tallahassee in December 1970 where she taught some, but mostly subbed, and took care of her son. She later became her husband’s office manager, as he kept calling her to fill in for staff calling in sick. Ada Alice was named after her two grandmothers Ada Peacock and Alice Burnett of Sale City, Ga. She was member of First Baptist Church. Ada was preceded in death by: her parents, Dr. W.H. and Marina Peacock; her sister, Betty Ann Hughes; and brother, Bud Peacock. Mrs. Wells is survived by: her husband of 61 years, Dr. John M. Wells Jr.; her son, John M. “Jay” Wells III; her daughter, Dr. Wendy A. Wells; her sisters, Elaine (Jim) Herrington and Sharon Scott; and her sisterin-law, Linda Peacock; as well as a host of nieces and nephews. Graveside funeral services will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 5, at Woodlawn Cemetery at 11 a.m. with Pastor John Hughes officiating.