Note: Gravestone and Obituary give Birth Year as 1883. However, all Ancestry.com documents - the World War I & II Draft Registration cards; US Census records of 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 & 1940; WA DI; and SSDI - all support the Birth Year of 1884.
Age: 81 yrs.
S/O Charles Albert Abbe & Florence L. (Miners) Abbe
W/O Zola O. Abbe (1887-24 Sep 1969), m 5 Mar 1910[? 1907 per her obituary], Thorp, Kittitas County, Washington, USA
F/O Earl Ernest Abbe (17 Oct 1904-15 Jun 1962)
Per WW I & II Draft Registration Cards & US Censuses, Traverse Abbe was a Farmer in 1910, 1918, 1920; a High School Janitor in 1930, 1940 & 1942. Per Obituary he was a Cemetery Caretaker 1941-1965.
Obituary, Ellensburg (WA) Daily Record, 16 Nov 1965;
Abbe Funeral Is Wednesday
Traverse R. Abbe, 82, longtime Thorp resident, died Sunday [14 Nov 1965] at the Kittitas Valley Community Hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Evenson Chapel with the Rev. Larry Webb officiating. Burial will be in the Thorp Cemetery.
Mr. Abbe was born May 13, 1883 [1884] in St. Joseph Mich., and married Zola Thorp in Thorp on March 5, 1910.
The Abbes made their home in Thorp for the past 25 years where he had been caretaker of the Thorp Cemetery. He was a member of the Methodist Church in Yakima.
Mr. Abbe is survived by his wife and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, Earl, in 1962.
Age: 81 yrs.
S/O Charles Albert Abbe & Florence L. (Miners) Abbe
W/O Zola O. Abbe (1887-24 Sep 1969), m 5 Mar 1910[? 1907 per her obituary], Thorp, Kittitas County, Washington, USA
F/O Earl Ernest Abbe (17 Oct 1904-15 Jun 1962)
Per WW I & II Draft Registration Cards & US Censuses, Traverse Abbe was a Farmer in 1910, 1918, 1920; a High School Janitor in 1930, 1940 & 1942. Per Obituary he was a Cemetery Caretaker 1941-1965.
Obituary, Ellensburg (WA) Daily Record, 16 Nov 1965;
Abbe Funeral Is Wednesday
Traverse R. Abbe, 82, longtime Thorp resident, died Sunday [14 Nov 1965] at the Kittitas Valley Community Hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Evenson Chapel with the Rev. Larry Webb officiating. Burial will be in the Thorp Cemetery.
Mr. Abbe was born May 13, 1883 [1884] in St. Joseph Mich., and married Zola Thorp in Thorp on March 5, 1910.
The Abbes made their home in Thorp for the past 25 years where he had been caretaker of the Thorp Cemetery. He was a member of the Methodist Church in Yakima.
Mr. Abbe is survived by his wife and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, Earl, in 1962.
Note: Gravestone and Obituary give Birth Year as 1883. However, all Ancestry.com documents - the World War I & II Draft Registration cards; US Census records of 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 & 1940; WA DI; and SSDI - all support the Birth Year of 1884.
Age: 81 yrs.
S/O Charles Albert Abbe & Florence L. (Miners) Abbe
W/O Zola O. Abbe (1887-24 Sep 1969), m 5 Mar 1910[? 1907 per her obituary], Thorp, Kittitas County, Washington, USA
F/O Earl Ernest Abbe (17 Oct 1904-15 Jun 1962)
Per WW I & II Draft Registration Cards & US Censuses, Traverse Abbe was a Farmer in 1910, 1918, 1920; a High School Janitor in 1930, 1940 & 1942. Per Obituary he was a Cemetery Caretaker 1941-1965.
Obituary, Ellensburg (WA) Daily Record, 16 Nov 1965;
Abbe Funeral Is Wednesday
Traverse R. Abbe, 82, longtime Thorp resident, died Sunday [14 Nov 1965] at the Kittitas Valley Community Hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Evenson Chapel with the Rev. Larry Webb officiating. Burial will be in the Thorp Cemetery.
Mr. Abbe was born May 13, 1883 [1884] in St. Joseph Mich., and married Zola Thorp in Thorp on March 5, 1910.
The Abbes made their home in Thorp for the past 25 years where he had been caretaker of the Thorp Cemetery. He was a member of the Methodist Church in Yakima.
Mr. Abbe is survived by his wife and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, Earl, in 1962.
Age: 81 yrs.
S/O Charles Albert Abbe & Florence L. (Miners) Abbe
W/O Zola O. Abbe (1887-24 Sep 1969), m 5 Mar 1910[? 1907 per her obituary], Thorp, Kittitas County, Washington, USA
F/O Earl Ernest Abbe (17 Oct 1904-15 Jun 1962)
Per WW I & II Draft Registration Cards & US Censuses, Traverse Abbe was a Farmer in 1910, 1918, 1920; a High School Janitor in 1930, 1940 & 1942. Per Obituary he was a Cemetery Caretaker 1941-1965.
Obituary, Ellensburg (WA) Daily Record, 16 Nov 1965;
Abbe Funeral Is Wednesday
Traverse R. Abbe, 82, longtime Thorp resident, died Sunday [14 Nov 1965] at the Kittitas Valley Community Hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Evenson Chapel with the Rev. Larry Webb officiating. Burial will be in the Thorp Cemetery.
Mr. Abbe was born May 13, 1883 [1884] in St. Joseph Mich., and married Zola Thorp in Thorp on March 5, 1910.
The Abbes made their home in Thorp for the past 25 years where he had been caretaker of the Thorp Cemetery. He was a member of the Methodist Church in Yakima.
Mr. Abbe is survived by his wife and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, Earl, in 1962.
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