Earluth Elaine Epting Abbitt, musician, teacher, and writer, the wife of Raymond Edgerton Abbitt (ret.), assistant, St. David's, Denton, TX, died after a lengthy illness at age 81 on May 8 at Good Samaritan Village in Denton.
The daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Thaddeus Epting, Mrs. Abbitt was a graduate of Milikin and Illinois Wesleyan Universities and did further study at Emory University. She studied harp with Margaret Sweeney of the Chicago Symphony and organ with Mario Varchi of the Vatican Chapel and served as organist and music director of churches in Illinois, Georgia, Texas, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. She taught harp at Illinois Wesleyan and played harp in three symphonies, including the Atlanta Symphony. She also taught education at the University of Georgia and Georgia State and was principal of several day schools including All Saints Day School USVI.
A member of the National Executive Committee for Parish Day Schools and chair of the Early Childhood Education Assoc., Mrs. Abbitt conducted for two years a study of severely retarded children in the Virgin Islands. She published stories, poems and church school curriculum material as well as supervised music programs, radio and television for Fulton County schools (Atlanta); she also was an editor for several publishing companies: including Ginn and Co.
An associate of the Community of the Transfiguration, Mrs. Abbitt is survived by her husband, Fr. Abbitt, her sister, Valeria, and numerous nieces and nephews. [From The Living Church, June 24, 1990]
The daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Thaddeus Epting, Mrs. Abbitt was a graduate of Milikin and Illinois Wesleyan Universities and did further study at Emory University. She studied harp with Margaret Sweeney of the Chicago Symphony and organ with Mario Varchi of the Vatican Chapel and served as organist and music director of churches in Illinois, Georgia, Texas, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. She taught harp at Illinois Wesleyan and played harp in three symphonies, including the Atlanta Symphony. She also taught education at the University of Georgia and Georgia State and was principal of several day schools including All Saints Day School USVI.
A member of the National Executive Committee for Parish Day Schools and chair of the Early Childhood Education Assoc., Mrs. Abbitt conducted for two years a study of severely retarded children in the Virgin Islands. She published stories, poems and church school curriculum material as well as supervised music programs, radio and television for Fulton County schools (Atlanta); she also was an editor for several publishing companies: including Ginn and Co.
An associate of the Community of the Transfiguration, Mrs. Abbitt is survived by her husband, Fr. Abbitt, her sister, Valeria, and numerous nieces and nephews. [From The Living Church, June 24, 1990]
Earluth Elaine Epting Abbitt, musician, teacher, and writer, the wife of Raymond Edgerton Abbitt (ret.), assistant, St. David's, Denton, TX, died after a lengthy illness at age 81 on May 8 at Good Samaritan Village in Denton.
The daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Thaddeus Epting, Mrs. Abbitt was a graduate of Milikin and Illinois Wesleyan Universities and did further study at Emory University. She studied harp with Margaret Sweeney of the Chicago Symphony and organ with Mario Varchi of the Vatican Chapel and served as organist and music director of churches in Illinois, Georgia, Texas, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. She taught harp at Illinois Wesleyan and played harp in three symphonies, including the Atlanta Symphony. She also taught education at the University of Georgia and Georgia State and was principal of several day schools including All Saints Day School USVI.
A member of the National Executive Committee for Parish Day Schools and chair of the Early Childhood Education Assoc., Mrs. Abbitt conducted for two years a study of severely retarded children in the Virgin Islands. She published stories, poems and church school curriculum material as well as supervised music programs, radio and television for Fulton County schools (Atlanta); she also was an editor for several publishing companies: including Ginn and Co.
An associate of the Community of the Transfiguration, Mrs. Abbitt is survived by her husband, Fr. Abbitt, her sister, Valeria, and numerous nieces and nephews. [From The Living Church, June 24, 1990]
The daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Thaddeus Epting, Mrs. Abbitt was a graduate of Milikin and Illinois Wesleyan Universities and did further study at Emory University. She studied harp with Margaret Sweeney of the Chicago Symphony and organ with Mario Varchi of the Vatican Chapel and served as organist and music director of churches in Illinois, Georgia, Texas, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. She taught harp at Illinois Wesleyan and played harp in three symphonies, including the Atlanta Symphony. She also taught education at the University of Georgia and Georgia State and was principal of several day schools including All Saints Day School USVI.
A member of the National Executive Committee for Parish Day Schools and chair of the Early Childhood Education Assoc., Mrs. Abbitt conducted for two years a study of severely retarded children in the Virgin Islands. She published stories, poems and church school curriculum material as well as supervised music programs, radio and television for Fulton County schools (Atlanta); she also was an editor for several publishing companies: including Ginn and Co.
An associate of the Community of the Transfiguration, Mrs. Abbitt is survived by her husband, Fr. Abbitt, her sister, Valeria, and numerous nieces and nephews. [From The Living Church, June 24, 1990]
