R.I.P. Rhoda May Adamson Dallas

A big piece of Malibu royalty, Rhoda-May Adamson Dallas, passed away on October 14th at the age of 94 of natural causes in her Studio City, California home.  Born on Valentine's Day, 1917, Rhoda-May was the granddaughter of Frederick H. Rindge who bought and essentially built up Malibu in 1892 and daughter of Frederick Hastings and May Knight Rindge.  As a child, Rhoda-May spent a lot of time at what is now the Adamson House, built in 1930 as a retreat for her parents. She was the first "Adohr-able" baby in the dairy's ad campaigns, and later in life too Rhoda-May worked on the dairy farm that her parents opened, "Adohr Farms," whose name is dervied from "Rhoda" spelled backwards.  Her and her siblings Sylvia and Merritt started Adamson Co. which oversaw and ran their parents' real estate holdings, and in 1972, they donated 138 acres of land to Pepperdine University.  Rhoda-May remained an active part of Malibu throughout her life, and will be missed.