Mr. Adrian Ledda

Graveside funeral services for Mr. Adrian Ledda, 87, of Carthage, Texas will be 9:00 a.m. Thursday, September 18, 2025, at the Odd Fellows Cemetery with Rev. Don Cocklin officiating. Burial will follow under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. Mr. Adrian Enrico Ledda was born July 4, 1938, in Redwood City, California. He passed this life September 13, 2025, in Tyler, Texas. Adrian was born to the marriage of Jewel Crowell and Adriano Enrico Ledda, Sr. His father was a Filipino immigrant and met his mother at a military dance. He was raised and schooled in California graduating from Menlo Atherton High School and attended the College of San Mateo. Mr. Ledda began working in the restaurant industry at the age of 14 on Mother's Day and began his career in management at 18. He would come to own and operate his own restaurants Adrian's, and Stagecoach and a liquor store, Brown Jug. Adrian married Rita Jane Herring on Easter Sunday April 14, 1974, and they celebrated 51 years of marriage recently. He and Rita were members of the First Christian Church of Carthage and attend the First Methodist of Carthage and St. Matthews Episcopal Church in San Mateo, CA. Adrian loved sports of any kind, cooking and serving his food to family and friends. He was a lover of all animals and spent many joyful years training German Shepherd dogs to the highest levels of tracking, obedience and protection in a sport now called, International Working Dog Trials. He competed at regional and national championships with six dogs all from his kennel, Vom Haus Ledda German Shephard Dogs. Adrian is preceded in death by his parents; siblings, Marian Crecilius, Virginia and John Bloom and Sandy Herron. Mr. Ledda is survived by his loving wife Rita Ledda of Carthage; daughter, Stacey McGowen of Willow Glen, CA; son, David Ledda of San Jose, CA; sister Bobbie Keller and husband Bob of Sunnyvale, CA; granddaughter, Nicole and great grandchildren, Grace and Hunter; and grandchildren, Cole and Amber and their mother, Amanda; numerous other relatives and a host of friends.