Born in Ozawkie, Kansas, the daughter of William and Katherine Priddy Dail, Abbie attended Healdsburg College in California, forerunner of today's Pacific Union College. Following her marriage to P. P. (Perlie Park) Adams in 1903, she and her husband served as evangelists in Fullerton, California, before being invited in 1905 to serve in the British Columbia Conference in Canada, where he served as secretary and treasurer as well as missionary secretary of the conference.

Five years later, he and his wife began teaching at AIA, now in its second year at a new location and offering grades eleven and twelve for the first time. They were hired to create a music program, which they did in the next seven years as the school grew from 63 to 223 students. They brought with them a piano, the first at the school, on which she gave lessons in hymn playing for 50c each. She also gave taught reed organ.

In 1917, they returned to California where he taught Bible at San Fernando Academy for the next six years before doing pastoral and evangelistic work in central California. Following his retirement in 1942, he and his wife moved to Napa where they continued to work occasionally in evangelism until 1946. She resided there until he died in 1956 at age 82 and was living in Yucaipa when she died nine years later at age 74.

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Obituary, R&H, 25 April 1965; news notes in other issues of that magazine and the Pacific Union Recorder, dating from 1907 to 1965; Faculty listing in and information from Changing Lives, The Hilltop Experience, Canadian University College centennial history, Edith Fitch and Denise Dick Herr, 2007.