Not many of us Knew Adele Keegan all of our lives ... We wish we had. We met her through the Nailgeek site which she joined in 2006.
A very organized no-nonsense lady, Adele worked as an accounts manager for much of her working career, but she was a creative person of great taste and she and her sister Alison formed a successful soft furnishings company about 12 years ago; they did beautiful work together. Adele and Alison have loads of loads of imagination and style but the job was very heavy work indeed and Adele decided to sit down and learn how to do nails (which she did very successfully with a host of clients who adored her). She opened a successful home salon and most importantly, joined the nail geek site in October 2006 which is when she entered our (the geek) orbit (heaven help us all !!).
Adele was a born communicator and of course the salon geek was the perfect place to learn and to communicate with others. Woe betide you if you got your name in her 'little black book' (and many did even if they were never aware of it, as she did not suffer fools gladly). :lol:
Adele became a member of the Mod Squad more than a year ago. She waited quite a long time for someone to be bad enough to get banned and we gave her the honour of doing it. She enjoyed that.
She gave us so many laughs with her quick and feisty humour and was one 'wicked' lady to share a bottle or two of wine with and fortunately we had lots of chances to do just that, together; not enough though, and we all wish it could have been allot more.
Adele was voted 'Geek of the Year' 2010 at the last EVENT and that was a HUGE moment in her life and she was determined to get to the EVENT come what may. She and her family made sure she didn't miss it ... and she looked beautiful and immaculately turned out as ever. She had a real sense of 'style' and dignity, and was one smart lady in every sense of the word. She may not have 'suffered fools gladly' but she was kind and generous to a fault and eager and willing to help anyone who needed it.
We Mods miss her and the site members who knew her have missed her during this last year. She has left a gap where she had the ability to see things from a different, quirky and more amusing, if not irreverent (which much better describes her
) point of view.
Adele spent her last year doing all the things she wanted or felt she needed to do. She knew from the start that she did not have all the time in the world. She was strong. She accepted her illness and with Alison at her side all the way, she kept her dignity and her sense of humor. It would have made her laugh to know that she missed Christmas! She probably planned it that way.
She was a loving person who was loved by all of us, is missed by all of us and both her world and the geek world will be diminished without her in it.