Laura Elizabeth McAdams

After a courageous battle with cancer, Laura Elizabeth McAdams, also known by her friends as Lala, passed away peacefully at St. Luke’s Hospital on Sunday, the 21st of March 2021, with her family members by her side. Her family, along with the many, many friends she cherished, will miss her dearly. She had great strength, compassion, a loving heart, and a true sense of humor and fun.

Laura was born in Lima, Peru, the 13th of July 1988. She was adopted as a toddler by Anne and Don McAdams and grew up happily in Bellaire, attending school and enjoying the numerous activities available for little girls—sports, dance, amazing birthday parties, scouts, and Indian Princesses. She enjoyed playing the piano. Laura graduated from Alexander Smith Academy in 2007 and from the Houston Community College Police Cadet Academy in 2015.

Laura worked in a number of jobs, including dog groomer, bail bond agent, and micro-blading artist. Her interest, however, eventually gravitated to the tattoo business, and she discovered that she had a flair for art and marketing. She enjoyed traveling to tattoo shows in major American cities, and in 2017 became manager of the Bloodline Tattoo Salon in South Houston. Her amazing ability to overcome adversity was evident when she rapidly reopened Bloodline after the salon was burned by an arsonist and her home was flooded by Hurricane Harvey in the space of one week. Later she established her own tattoo salon in South Houston, Ink Hou Tattoo. In 2020 she opened the Blue Rose Tattoo Salon on Westheimer.

Laura brought joy everywhere she went. She made close friends out of nearly everyone she met. But it was not just her personality and laugh that attracted others, it was the genuine respect, deep love, and bottomless generosity she gave to all. Any time, day or night, no matter what she was doing, Laura would drop everything to help a friend. Her friends were legion, and any of them would do the same for her. She was an animal lover who collected strays. One of her long-term aspirations was to open an animal rescue facility out in the countryside. She loved travel and new experiences and was always planning the next trip.

In addition to her parents, Laura is survived by her beloved twelve-year-old daughter Lea Garcia, sister Hanna McAdams, brothers Shaun McAdams and Danny McAdams, grandparents J and Joyce Pace, as well as aunts, uncles and cousins. Family was so important to Laura, and she was never happier than when she was on a family vacation or at a family event.

Friends are cordially invited to gather with the family and share remembrances of Laura from twelve o’clock noon until two o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday, the 11th of April, in the library and grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that memorial contributions be directed to Friends of the Bellaire Pound, 5104 Pocahontas St., Bellaire, TX, 77401-4912.