D/O Thomas Porter Sargent & Ida Mary (Mansell) Sargent
W/O Col. Evers Abbey, div. 1947, Broward County, FL
M/O Maj. Gen. Richard Sargent Abbey
M/O Elizabeth Louise (Abbey) Roath
Obituary, Great Falls [MT] Tribune, Fri., 14 May 1971, pg. 18
Ida Abbey, 76, Dies; Funeral Set
Mrs. Evers (Ida S.) Abbey, 76, mother of Maj. Gen. Richard S. Abbey, commander of the 24th North American Region Air Defense Command (NORAD) died Thursday at Malmstrom Air Force Base hospital.
She had been in failing health since suffering a stroke in February, 1970, and had made her home with the Abbeys at 4 Aspen since March 1970.
Protestant Memorial services will be conducted at Malmstrom AFB Chapel today at 3 p.m. with Chaplain Lt. Col. Ralph V. VanLandingham officiating. Catholic memorial services will follow at 5 p.m. today in the chapel with Rev. Capt. Robert E. Moffitt as officiant. Cremation will follow.
Mrs. Abbey's husband, Army Col. (Ret.) Evers Abbey, died in 1966. She was born in Niles, Mich., Oct. 10, 1894. She spent her early life in Michigan and while her husband was serving in World War I lived in East Orange, N.J. Later the couple made their home at military fields in Virginia, Long Island, Panama and Illinois and in Washington, D.C.
She is survived by her son here, a daughter, Mrs. Donald (Bettie) Roath, Alexandris, Va., four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
D/O Thomas Porter Sargent & Ida Mary (Mansell) Sargent
W/O Col. Evers Abbey, div. 1947, Broward County, FL
M/O Maj. Gen. Richard Sargent Abbey
M/O Elizabeth Louise (Abbey) Roath
Obituary, Great Falls [MT] Tribune, Fri., 14 May 1971, pg. 18
Ida Abbey, 76, Dies; Funeral Set
Mrs. Evers (Ida S.) Abbey, 76, mother of Maj. Gen. Richard S. Abbey, commander of the 24th North American Region Air Defense Command (NORAD) died Thursday at Malmstrom Air Force Base hospital.
She had been in failing health since suffering a stroke in February, 1970, and had made her home with the Abbeys at 4 Aspen since March 1970.
Protestant Memorial services will be conducted at Malmstrom AFB Chapel today at 3 p.m. with Chaplain Lt. Col. Ralph V. VanLandingham officiating. Catholic memorial services will follow at 5 p.m. today in the chapel with Rev. Capt. Robert E. Moffitt as officiant. Cremation will follow.
Mrs. Abbey's husband, Army Col. (Ret.) Evers Abbey, died in 1966. She was born in Niles, Mich., Oct. 10, 1894. She spent her early life in Michigan and while her husband was serving in World War I lived in East Orange, N.J. Later the couple made their home at military fields in Virginia, Long Island, Panama and Illinois and in Washington, D.C.
She is survived by her son here, a daughter, Mrs. Donald (Bettie) Roath, Alexandris, Va., four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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