ANDERSON — Phyllis Marie (Frazier) Abel transitioned into her next life on Sept. 6, 2014.
She was born to George and Laura (Johnston) Frazier in Alexandria on Aug. 13, 1929. She married and is survived by Richard “Dick” Abel on Feb. 12, 1949; they celebrated their 65th anniversary this year.
She was a loving mother to Patrick Jay Abel (wife, Dee) of Muncie, Richard Anthony “Tony” Abel (wife, Julie) of Orestes, and Suzanne Skinner (husband, Stephen) of Anderson. She has five grandchildren, Mary Kristine (Kristy) Newcomer of Avon, Laura Lynn Farmer of Anderson, Sarah Abel of Anderson, Benjamin Abel of Orestes, and Matthew Abel of Carmel. She also left behind 13 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, one of whom was born the day before her 85th birthday. She is also survived by her sister, Ruthanne Hobbs (husband, Herb); nephew, Joe Abel (wife, Dee); her brother, William Frazier; and many nieces and nephews whom she loved dearly.
In the family she was known as Mona, a nickname she treasured because her granddaughter Kristy named her that instead of Grandma. She said it was because she was too young to be a grandma. Those who knew her knew that she was perpetually 35 years old until she actually hit her 80s. She then allowed herself to be 49 like Jack Benny.
The Abel house was well known to friends of her children. That is where the kids liked to hang out. With animals, a barn, and eight acres to run on with the woods behind the house, it was the perfect playground. She was a Girl Scout leader and second mother to those who needed her. When the kids got older, the house became a place where the band would practice and hypnosis parties took place, all in fun. She always would have rather had all the kids at her house and known they were OK than out where they could get in trouble.
As the kids moved out, Mona invited their friends back to visit. There were weekly meetings where each person had to teach something new to each of the others or where books were read and discussed. There was much laughter and learning going on, with maybe a glass of wine or two!
Being an educator was something that Mona always wanted to accomplish. She attended Ivy Tech Community College and Anderson University, but never finished. She was always too busy moving into the next thing she wanted to do. Some of those were Huna (a Hawaiian healing tradition), spiritualism and esoteric healing. She studied constantly. She was curious about everything in the world. She met so many very good friends in this journey of discovery. I am sure they will miss her.
Mona was well known in several communities. She began working in an insurance office and then sold real estate for many years. After she retired from real estate she began working at Aspire in a group home for those who have a mental illness. She truly loved this job. She loved the clients and met a really good friend, George. He was there with her through her illness. He always said she was his second mother and mentor.
Mona always believed in the hereafter and had a strong belief in God. She even said she met and talked to Him and Jesus when she had to make the choice the first time she became ill to go with them or stay with us. She chose to stay and suffer for the last 4.5 months with the horrible disease of cancer. Her body is now at rest, but her soul is out in the universe getting the answers to all of those burning questions she always wanted the answers to.
In her final act of giving to others, Mona donated her body to IU Medical Center for future physicians to study. She is still educating others! It is our hope that they will find the cause of the cancer that took our mother from us and prevent this from happening to others.
There will be a Celebration of Life at a later time to be announced.
If you would like to make a memorial contribution, please consider Ivy Tech Community College in Anderson. She enjoyed her classes so much there and it would honor the learning she valued so much.
She was born to George and Laura (Johnston) Frazier in Alexandria on Aug. 13, 1929. She married and is survived by Richard “Dick” Abel on Feb. 12, 1949; they celebrated their 65th anniversary this year.
She was a loving mother to Patrick Jay Abel (wife, Dee) of Muncie, Richard Anthony “Tony” Abel (wife, Julie) of Orestes, and Suzanne Skinner (husband, Stephen) of Anderson. She has five grandchildren, Mary Kristine (Kristy) Newcomer of Avon, Laura Lynn Farmer of Anderson, Sarah Abel of Anderson, Benjamin Abel of Orestes, and Matthew Abel of Carmel. She also left behind 13 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, one of whom was born the day before her 85th birthday. She is also survived by her sister, Ruthanne Hobbs (husband, Herb); nephew, Joe Abel (wife, Dee); her brother, William Frazier; and many nieces and nephews whom she loved dearly.
In the family she was known as Mona, a nickname she treasured because her granddaughter Kristy named her that instead of Grandma. She said it was because she was too young to be a grandma. Those who knew her knew that she was perpetually 35 years old until she actually hit her 80s. She then allowed herself to be 49 like Jack Benny.
The Abel house was well known to friends of her children. That is where the kids liked to hang out. With animals, a barn, and eight acres to run on with the woods behind the house, it was the perfect playground. She was a Girl Scout leader and second mother to those who needed her. When the kids got older, the house became a place where the band would practice and hypnosis parties took place, all in fun. She always would have rather had all the kids at her house and known they were OK than out where they could get in trouble.
As the kids moved out, Mona invited their friends back to visit. There were weekly meetings where each person had to teach something new to each of the others or where books were read and discussed. There was much laughter and learning going on, with maybe a glass of wine or two!
Being an educator was something that Mona always wanted to accomplish. She attended Ivy Tech Community College and Anderson University, but never finished. She was always too busy moving into the next thing she wanted to do. Some of those were Huna (a Hawaiian healing tradition), spiritualism and esoteric healing. She studied constantly. She was curious about everything in the world. She met so many very good friends in this journey of discovery. I am sure they will miss her.
Mona was well known in several communities. She began working in an insurance office and then sold real estate for many years. After she retired from real estate she began working at Aspire in a group home for those who have a mental illness. She truly loved this job. She loved the clients and met a really good friend, George. He was there with her through her illness. He always said she was his second mother and mentor.
Mona always believed in the hereafter and had a strong belief in God. She even said she met and talked to Him and Jesus when she had to make the choice the first time she became ill to go with them or stay with us. She chose to stay and suffer for the last 4.5 months with the horrible disease of cancer. Her body is now at rest, but her soul is out in the universe getting the answers to all of those burning questions she always wanted the answers to.
In her final act of giving to others, Mona donated her body to IU Medical Center for future physicians to study. She is still educating others! It is our hope that they will find the cause of the cancer that took our mother from us and prevent this from happening to others.
There will be a Celebration of Life at a later time to be announced.
If you would like to make a memorial contribution, please consider Ivy Tech Community College in Anderson. She enjoyed her classes so much there and it would honor the learning she valued so much.
ANDERSON — Phyllis Marie (Frazier) Abel transitioned into her next life on Sept. 6, 2014.
She was born to George and Laura (Johnston) Frazier in Alexandria on Aug. 13, 1929. She married and is survived by Richard “Dick” Abel on Feb. 12, 1949; they celebrated their 65th anniversary this year.
She was a loving mother to Patrick Jay Abel (wife, Dee) of Muncie, Richard Anthony “Tony” Abel (wife, Julie) of Orestes, and Suzanne Skinner (husband, Stephen) of Anderson. She has five grandchildren, Mary Kristine (Kristy) Newcomer of Avon, Laura Lynn Farmer of Anderson, Sarah Abel of Anderson, Benjamin Abel of Orestes, and Matthew Abel of Carmel. She also left behind 13 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, one of whom was born the day before her 85th birthday. She is also survived by her sister, Ruthanne Hobbs (husband, Herb); nephew, Joe Abel (wife, Dee); her brother, William Frazier; and many nieces and nephews whom she loved dearly.
In the family she was known as Mona, a nickname she treasured because her granddaughter Kristy named her that instead of Grandma. She said it was because she was too young to be a grandma. Those who knew her knew that she was perpetually 35 years old until she actually hit her 80s. She then allowed herself to be 49 like Jack Benny.
The Abel house was well known to friends of her children. That is where the kids liked to hang out. With animals, a barn, and eight acres to run on with the woods behind the house, it was the perfect playground. She was a Girl Scout leader and second mother to those who needed her. When the kids got older, the house became a place where the band would practice and hypnosis parties took place, all in fun. She always would have rather had all the kids at her house and known they were OK than out where they could get in trouble.
As the kids moved out, Mona invited their friends back to visit. There were weekly meetings where each person had to teach something new to each of the others or where books were read and discussed. There was much laughter and learning going on, with maybe a glass of wine or two!
Being an educator was something that Mona always wanted to accomplish. She attended Ivy Tech Community College and Anderson University, but never finished. She was always too busy moving into the next thing she wanted to do. Some of those were Huna (a Hawaiian healing tradition), spiritualism and esoteric healing. She studied constantly. She was curious about everything in the world. She met so many very good friends in this journey of discovery. I am sure they will miss her.
Mona was well known in several communities. She began working in an insurance office and then sold real estate for many years. After she retired from real estate she began working at Aspire in a group home for those who have a mental illness. She truly loved this job. She loved the clients and met a really good friend, George. He was there with her through her illness. He always said she was his second mother and mentor.
Mona always believed in the hereafter and had a strong belief in God. She even said she met and talked to Him and Jesus when she had to make the choice the first time she became ill to go with them or stay with us. She chose to stay and suffer for the last 4.5 months with the horrible disease of cancer. Her body is now at rest, but her soul is out in the universe getting the answers to all of those burning questions she always wanted the answers to.
In her final act of giving to others, Mona donated her body to IU Medical Center for future physicians to study. She is still educating others! It is our hope that they will find the cause of the cancer that took our mother from us and prevent this from happening to others.
There will be a Celebration of Life at a later time to be announced.
If you would like to make a memorial contribution, please consider Ivy Tech Community College in Anderson. She enjoyed her classes so much there and it would honor the learning she valued so much.
She was born to George and Laura (Johnston) Frazier in Alexandria on Aug. 13, 1929. She married and is survived by Richard “Dick” Abel on Feb. 12, 1949; they celebrated their 65th anniversary this year.
She was a loving mother to Patrick Jay Abel (wife, Dee) of Muncie, Richard Anthony “Tony” Abel (wife, Julie) of Orestes, and Suzanne Skinner (husband, Stephen) of Anderson. She has five grandchildren, Mary Kristine (Kristy) Newcomer of Avon, Laura Lynn Farmer of Anderson, Sarah Abel of Anderson, Benjamin Abel of Orestes, and Matthew Abel of Carmel. She also left behind 13 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, one of whom was born the day before her 85th birthday. She is also survived by her sister, Ruthanne Hobbs (husband, Herb); nephew, Joe Abel (wife, Dee); her brother, William Frazier; and many nieces and nephews whom she loved dearly.
In the family she was known as Mona, a nickname she treasured because her granddaughter Kristy named her that instead of Grandma. She said it was because she was too young to be a grandma. Those who knew her knew that she was perpetually 35 years old until she actually hit her 80s. She then allowed herself to be 49 like Jack Benny.
The Abel house was well known to friends of her children. That is where the kids liked to hang out. With animals, a barn, and eight acres to run on with the woods behind the house, it was the perfect playground. She was a Girl Scout leader and second mother to those who needed her. When the kids got older, the house became a place where the band would practice and hypnosis parties took place, all in fun. She always would have rather had all the kids at her house and known they were OK than out where they could get in trouble.
As the kids moved out, Mona invited their friends back to visit. There were weekly meetings where each person had to teach something new to each of the others or where books were read and discussed. There was much laughter and learning going on, with maybe a glass of wine or two!
Being an educator was something that Mona always wanted to accomplish. She attended Ivy Tech Community College and Anderson University, but never finished. She was always too busy moving into the next thing she wanted to do. Some of those were Huna (a Hawaiian healing tradition), spiritualism and esoteric healing. She studied constantly. She was curious about everything in the world. She met so many very good friends in this journey of discovery. I am sure they will miss her.
Mona was well known in several communities. She began working in an insurance office and then sold real estate for many years. After she retired from real estate she began working at Aspire in a group home for those who have a mental illness. She truly loved this job. She loved the clients and met a really good friend, George. He was there with her through her illness. He always said she was his second mother and mentor.
Mona always believed in the hereafter and had a strong belief in God. She even said she met and talked to Him and Jesus when she had to make the choice the first time she became ill to go with them or stay with us. She chose to stay and suffer for the last 4.5 months with the horrible disease of cancer. Her body is now at rest, but her soul is out in the universe getting the answers to all of those burning questions she always wanted the answers to.
In her final act of giving to others, Mona donated her body to IU Medical Center for future physicians to study. She is still educating others! It is our hope that they will find the cause of the cancer that took our mother from us and prevent this from happening to others.
There will be a Celebration of Life at a later time to be announced.
If you would like to make a memorial contribution, please consider Ivy Tech Community College in Anderson. She enjoyed her classes so much there and it would honor the learning she valued so much.
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