WW II Veteran, Postmaster (Lowpoint, IL 61545), school board member and president (Washburn, IL), United Methodist lay speaker.
There are no siblings.
Step Siblings are Norma Lee BROERS Ahrens, Merlin Broers, Robert Hanks, Doris HANKS, and James Hanks.
Children are Rodney, Marcia ABEL Jenkins, Mary Ann, Roland, Russell, Robert, and Thomas.
From an untitled, undated newspaper clipping:
Wilbur M. Abel, 67, of 311 E. Clark St died at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, June 17, 1993, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria.
Born May 28, 1926, in Adams County to Edwin and Lola Smith Abel, he married Joan Hahn on Feb. 19, 1947, in Metamora. She survives.
Also surviving are four sons, Rodney and Roland, both of Peoria, Robert of Indianapolis and Thomas of Huntsville, Ala.; one daughter, Mrs. Douglas (Marcia) Jenkins of Washburn; 12 grandchildren; his stepmother, Ruby Abel of Leesburg, Fla.; one stepsister, Norma Lee Ahrens of Metamora; and one stepbrother, Merlin Broers of Bloomington. He was preceded in death by one son, one daughter and one granddaughter.
[He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Metamora, Woodford Co, Illinois]
Transcribed and donated by Amy Robbins-Tjaden
There are no siblings.
Step Siblings are Norma Lee BROERS Ahrens, Merlin Broers, Robert Hanks, Doris HANKS, and James Hanks.
Children are Rodney, Marcia ABEL Jenkins, Mary Ann, Roland, Russell, Robert, and Thomas.
From an untitled, undated newspaper clipping:
Wilbur M. Abel, 67, of 311 E. Clark St died at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, June 17, 1993, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria.
Born May 28, 1926, in Adams County to Edwin and Lola Smith Abel, he married Joan Hahn on Feb. 19, 1947, in Metamora. She survives.
Also surviving are four sons, Rodney and Roland, both of Peoria, Robert of Indianapolis and Thomas of Huntsville, Ala.; one daughter, Mrs. Douglas (Marcia) Jenkins of Washburn; 12 grandchildren; his stepmother, Ruby Abel of Leesburg, Fla.; one stepsister, Norma Lee Ahrens of Metamora; and one stepbrother, Merlin Broers of Bloomington. He was preceded in death by one son, one daughter and one granddaughter.
[He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Metamora, Woodford Co, Illinois]
Transcribed and donated by Amy Robbins-Tjaden
WW II Veteran, Postmaster (Lowpoint, IL 61545), school board member and president (Washburn, IL), United Methodist lay speaker.
There are no siblings.
Step Siblings are Norma Lee BROERS Ahrens, Merlin Broers, Robert Hanks, Doris HANKS, and James Hanks.
Children are Rodney, Marcia ABEL Jenkins, Mary Ann, Roland, Russell, Robert, and Thomas.
From an untitled, undated newspaper clipping:
Wilbur M. Abel, 67, of 311 E. Clark St died at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, June 17, 1993, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria.
Born May 28, 1926, in Adams County to Edwin and Lola Smith Abel, he married Joan Hahn on Feb. 19, 1947, in Metamora. She survives.
Also surviving are four sons, Rodney and Roland, both of Peoria, Robert of Indianapolis and Thomas of Huntsville, Ala.; one daughter, Mrs. Douglas (Marcia) Jenkins of Washburn; 12 grandchildren; his stepmother, Ruby Abel of Leesburg, Fla.; one stepsister, Norma Lee Ahrens of Metamora; and one stepbrother, Merlin Broers of Bloomington. He was preceded in death by one son, one daughter and one granddaughter.
[He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Metamora, Woodford Co, Illinois]
Transcribed and donated by Amy Robbins-Tjaden
There are no siblings.
Step Siblings are Norma Lee BROERS Ahrens, Merlin Broers, Robert Hanks, Doris HANKS, and James Hanks.
Children are Rodney, Marcia ABEL Jenkins, Mary Ann, Roland, Russell, Robert, and Thomas.
From an untitled, undated newspaper clipping:
Wilbur M. Abel, 67, of 311 E. Clark St died at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, June 17, 1993, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria.
Born May 28, 1926, in Adams County to Edwin and Lola Smith Abel, he married Joan Hahn on Feb. 19, 1947, in Metamora. She survives.
Also surviving are four sons, Rodney and Roland, both of Peoria, Robert of Indianapolis and Thomas of Huntsville, Ala.; one daughter, Mrs. Douglas (Marcia) Jenkins of Washburn; 12 grandchildren; his stepmother, Ruby Abel of Leesburg, Fla.; one stepsister, Norma Lee Ahrens of Metamora; and one stepbrother, Merlin Broers of Bloomington. He was preceded in death by one son, one daughter and one granddaughter.
[He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Metamora, Woodford Co, Illinois]
Transcribed and donated by Amy Robbins-Tjaden
