Adrienne L. McClendon

Adrienne Leigh Fort was born to Eldon Roy Fort and Mary Francis Ahearn on December 2nd 1952 in Houston, TX. She was an older sister to Deidra Jorgenson and Guy Fort, and grew up surrounded by her extended family.

Adrienne was exceptionally brilliant and talented in many art forms. She excelled in academics, art, and dance throughout her school years, graduating from the University of Texas Austin with a Bachelor degree in Art History. Truly though, she never stopped learning. She was constantly attending classes, taking courses, and conducting independent research. She recently earned a Master’s degree in Biblical Counseling from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2018 and was currently considering options to return for a post-graduate art degree.

She spent 42 years as a military wife, experiencing life in multiple places including Colorado, England, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arizona, California and Florida. She called herself a “traveling gypsy” and loved exploring new places with her children and grandchildren. 

She was an exemplary and faithful wife, and an excellent mother to her six children. She was a dancer: teaching her daughters hula dancing, belly dancing and classical ballet, as well as taking ballet and figure skating as an adult. She was an artist: teaching art in her home, taking art as an adult, creating incredible pieces of art, and writing poems. She was a musician: she made sure each child had music lessons, she wrote each of her children their own song that they could request her to sing at any time, she serenaded her home with hymns sung and played on the piano. She wrote music for auto-harp and kept it by her rocking chair where she played music for the Lord and grandchildren. She was an evangelist and shared the Gospel faithfully everywhere she went, particularly in backyard Bible studies, Meals on Wheels, MOPS, and holiday dinners in her home with the homeless she invited over. 

She was a 6th generation Texan and never lost her cowgirl heart. She taught all her children to ride horses and worked at summer horse camps where her wrangler name was “Sunrise”. She celebrated her 70th birthday at a dude ranch trail riding with her daughters.

Adrienne was welcomed to heaven by her eight children and five grandchildren that passed before her by miscarriage, her mother, father, and several dear friends. She eagerly awaits the arrival of her six children (Jeremiah, Jennifer, Christina, Steven, Taylor, Olivia) and twenty-two grandchildren (Chase, Hailey, Lilla; Chesed, Piper; Mia, Noah, Elliott, Emmett; Levi, Caroline, Jackson, Titus, William, Emmalyn; Caedmon, Iona; Sky, Selah, Micaiah, Bezalel, Benaiah).  

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