Clifton Abbott, writer, is dead.
A. Clifton Abbott, a former newspaper reporter and a free-lance writer, is dead at the age of 63. He died Sunday of natural causes.
Abbott worked for the Tucson Citizen in the early 1950s. Before that, he was a sports writer for the Yuma Daily Sun, a copy editor for the Los Angeles Examiner and a reporter for other newspapers in the Southwest.
He was born in Texline, Texas, March 5, 1918, and moved to Arizona as a child. He attended grade school and high school in Yuma before going to work on the paper there.
Abbott served in the Navy during World War II.
He is survived by his wife, Mary; his mother, Shelley Abbott of Clarkdale; and a brother, Thurston, of Saudi Arabia.
Services will be tomorrow at 11 a.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1501 Speedway Blvd., followed by burial at Evergreen Cemetery.
Tucson Citizen
Tucson, Arizona
Tuesday, September 22, 1981
Page 16
Clifton Abbott, writer, is dead.
A. Clifton Abbott, a former newspaper reporter and a free-lance writer, is dead at the age of 63. He died Sunday of natural causes.
Abbott worked for the Tucson Citizen in the early 1950s. Before that, he was a sports writer for the Yuma Daily Sun, a copy editor for the Los Angeles Examiner and a reporter for other newspapers in the Southwest.
He was born in Texline, Texas, March 5, 1918, and moved to Arizona as a child. He attended grade school and high school in Yuma before going to work on the paper there.
Abbott served in the Navy during World War II.
He is survived by his wife, Mary; his mother, Shelley Abbott of Clarkdale; and a brother, Thurston, of Saudi Arabia.
Services will be tomorrow at 11 a.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1501 Speedway Blvd., followed by burial at Evergreen Cemetery.
Tucson Citizen
Tucson, Arizona
Tuesday, September 22, 1981
Page 16
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