Rappahannock Record (Kilmarnock, Va.),
Thu, 9 Sep 1948, p8, c4
Mrs. Tom Abbott
Mrs. Mary Abbott died Friday just as the hours of the day began. Mrs. Abbott, though she suffered for many years, complained very little about her own pain, but was always concerned about her husband and children to whom she devoted her life.
Mrs. Abbott was born September 23, 1888, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Blake, in Gloucester County. While still an infant her parents moved to Lancaster County and most of her life was spent in Weems.
While a young girl she joined Claybrook Baptist Church where she did active church work in the church, Sunday school and societies of the church as long as her health permitted her to do so. Not only was she active in church work but in her community she helped in anyway she could. Especially in time of sickness and sorrow she was always ready to help others.
In June of 1906 she married Tom Abbott. To this union were born 10 children, two of whom proceeded her in death.
Survivors besides her husband are four daughters, Mrs. Ray Dameron, Mrs. Woodrow Kellum, Mrs. Stanley Kellum and Mrs. Gordon D. George, Jr., all of Weems; four sons, Luther, Vernon and Marvin, all of Weems, and Otis of the U.S. Army in Germany; 17 grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Nancy Warwick of Weems and three brothers, Robert, Ray and Marvin Blake, all of Weems.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon in the Claybrook Baptist Church by her pastor, Rev. W. W. Wright, with interment in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers were Virginius Blake, George Blake, Marvin Blake, Jr., James Abbott, Earl Abbott and T. T. Kellum.
Honorary pallbearers were members of her Sunday School class and other classes of the Sunday School. Her many flowers showed the high esteem in which she was held by those who knew her.
Thu, 9 Sep 1948, p8, c4
Mrs. Tom Abbott
Mrs. Mary Abbott died Friday just as the hours of the day began. Mrs. Abbott, though she suffered for many years, complained very little about her own pain, but was always concerned about her husband and children to whom she devoted her life.
Mrs. Abbott was born September 23, 1888, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Blake, in Gloucester County. While still an infant her parents moved to Lancaster County and most of her life was spent in Weems.
While a young girl she joined Claybrook Baptist Church where she did active church work in the church, Sunday school and societies of the church as long as her health permitted her to do so. Not only was she active in church work but in her community she helped in anyway she could. Especially in time of sickness and sorrow she was always ready to help others.
In June of 1906 she married Tom Abbott. To this union were born 10 children, two of whom proceeded her in death.
Survivors besides her husband are four daughters, Mrs. Ray Dameron, Mrs. Woodrow Kellum, Mrs. Stanley Kellum and Mrs. Gordon D. George, Jr., all of Weems; four sons, Luther, Vernon and Marvin, all of Weems, and Otis of the U.S. Army in Germany; 17 grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Nancy Warwick of Weems and three brothers, Robert, Ray and Marvin Blake, all of Weems.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon in the Claybrook Baptist Church by her pastor, Rev. W. W. Wright, with interment in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers were Virginius Blake, George Blake, Marvin Blake, Jr., James Abbott, Earl Abbott and T. T. Kellum.
Honorary pallbearers were members of her Sunday School class and other classes of the Sunday School. Her many flowers showed the high esteem in which she was held by those who knew her.
Rappahannock Record (Kilmarnock, Va.),
Thu, 9 Sep 1948, p8, c4
Mrs. Tom Abbott
Mrs. Mary Abbott died Friday just as the hours of the day began. Mrs. Abbott, though she suffered for many years, complained very little about her own pain, but was always concerned about her husband and children to whom she devoted her life.
Mrs. Abbott was born September 23, 1888, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Blake, in Gloucester County. While still an infant her parents moved to Lancaster County and most of her life was spent in Weems.
While a young girl she joined Claybrook Baptist Church where she did active church work in the church, Sunday school and societies of the church as long as her health permitted her to do so. Not only was she active in church work but in her community she helped in anyway she could. Especially in time of sickness and sorrow she was always ready to help others.
In June of 1906 she married Tom Abbott. To this union were born 10 children, two of whom proceeded her in death.
Survivors besides her husband are four daughters, Mrs. Ray Dameron, Mrs. Woodrow Kellum, Mrs. Stanley Kellum and Mrs. Gordon D. George, Jr., all of Weems; four sons, Luther, Vernon and Marvin, all of Weems, and Otis of the U.S. Army in Germany; 17 grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Nancy Warwick of Weems and three brothers, Robert, Ray and Marvin Blake, all of Weems.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon in the Claybrook Baptist Church by her pastor, Rev. W. W. Wright, with interment in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers were Virginius Blake, George Blake, Marvin Blake, Jr., James Abbott, Earl Abbott and T. T. Kellum.
Honorary pallbearers were members of her Sunday School class and other classes of the Sunday School. Her many flowers showed the high esteem in which she was held by those who knew her.
Thu, 9 Sep 1948, p8, c4
Mrs. Tom Abbott
Mrs. Mary Abbott died Friday just as the hours of the day began. Mrs. Abbott, though she suffered for many years, complained very little about her own pain, but was always concerned about her husband and children to whom she devoted her life.
Mrs. Abbott was born September 23, 1888, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Blake, in Gloucester County. While still an infant her parents moved to Lancaster County and most of her life was spent in Weems.
While a young girl she joined Claybrook Baptist Church where she did active church work in the church, Sunday school and societies of the church as long as her health permitted her to do so. Not only was she active in church work but in her community she helped in anyway she could. Especially in time of sickness and sorrow she was always ready to help others.
In June of 1906 she married Tom Abbott. To this union were born 10 children, two of whom proceeded her in death.
Survivors besides her husband are four daughters, Mrs. Ray Dameron, Mrs. Woodrow Kellum, Mrs. Stanley Kellum and Mrs. Gordon D. George, Jr., all of Weems; four sons, Luther, Vernon and Marvin, all of Weems, and Otis of the U.S. Army in Germany; 17 grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Nancy Warwick of Weems and three brothers, Robert, Ray and Marvin Blake, all of Weems.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon in the Claybrook Baptist Church by her pastor, Rev. W. W. Wright, with interment in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers were Virginius Blake, George Blake, Marvin Blake, Jr., James Abbott, Earl Abbott and T. T. Kellum.
Honorary pallbearers were members of her Sunday School class and other classes of the Sunday School. Her many flowers showed the high esteem in which she was held by those who knew her.
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Mary L.
Abbott
Sept. 23, 1888
Sept. 3, 1948
A wife and
mother we will always
miss.
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