Sarah G. Craig Inniss

Sarah Gertrude Craig Inniss was born on June 27, 1936, in Trenton, New Jersey. A proud graduate of Trenton Central High School, class of 1954, she possessed a remarkable voice that earned her leading roles in school operettas. As a young woman she sang at weddings, fashion shows, and funerals throughout the city. At the age of fifteen she was awarded a four-year scholarship for voice lessons at the Trenton Conservatory of Music by the Fai-Ho-Cha Club.

Baptized at twelve at Union Baptist Church under Rev. A.S. Grayson, Sarah later became a devoted member of Macedonia Baptist Church in 1994 under Rev. Keith A. Marshall. There she sang in the Sanctuary Choir, served as head of the church nursery for ten years, chaired Unity Day on two occasions, coordinated weddings, served as church secretary, and was elevated to Deaconess in 2003. She also organized memorable bus trips to Disney World and cruises for family and friends. In 2011, at age seventy-five, she was crowned the first Mercer County Senior America Pageant winner.

Sarah worked from the time she left high school, holding positions at Donnelly Memorial Hospital, E.R. Squibb and Sons, General Motors, Westside Pharmacy, Westinghouse, and providing daycare in her home. Well into her later years she served as a bus aide for the Trenton Board of Education until the age of eighty-five.

She was married first to John M. Adams, Sr., with whom she had four sons, and later to George Inniss. Preceded in death by her parents Peyton Sr. and Elizabeth Craig, brothers Donald, Peyton Jr., James Sr., and John Craig, sister Virginia Craig Thomas, grandsons Kris Matthews and Jared Anderson, and bonus daughters Donna Driver and Patricia Miller, Sarah is survived by her sons Donald Adams, John Adams Jr. (Catherine), Gary Adams, and James Adams; twenty-seven grandchildren; thirty-five great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. She also leaves behind brothers Grayson Craig and Peyton Pinkston, Aunt Lois Craig Moss, niece and cherished daughter Leslie Jones, godson Steven Craig Byrd, goddaughters Sarah Cox, Mia Mathis, Tiffany Moore, and Bria Anderson, cousins Pamela Billups, Martique Branch, and Jerome Yates, her dearest friend Jean Kelly, ten “daughters of her heart,” nine “Golden Friends,” and a host of other family members, neighbors from the 700 block of Edgewood Avenue where she lived for more than sixty years, and her beloved Macedonia and Union Baptist Church families.