Funeral services for George Y. "Todd" Abel, 83, of Horn Lake, are at 2 p.m. Thursday at National Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery in Carroll County.
Visitation is Thursday from noon to 2 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mr. Abel died March 10, 2009, at Baptist Memorial Hospital DeSoto in Southaven.
He was born on July 10, 1925, in Carroll County to the late Rhuben Wheeler Abel and Iona Vance Abel.
Mr. Abel was retired from the Memphis plant of Bemis Company, Inc., where he had worked as a machinist. He attended Calvary Baptist Church in Carroll County while growing up and attended Southcrest Baptist Church most recently. He also served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
In addition to his parents, preceding Mr. Abel in death is his wife, Johnnie Lula Abel.
Survivors include a daughter, Patricia A. Brooks of Horn Lake; two sons, James Wheeler Abel of Collierville and George R. Worsham of Memphis; a sister, Wheeler Katherine Bardo of Grenada; a brother, Cecil Abel of Florence, Miss.; six grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
National Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
The Daily Star
March 11, 2009
Visitation is Thursday from noon to 2 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mr. Abel died March 10, 2009, at Baptist Memorial Hospital DeSoto in Southaven.
He was born on July 10, 1925, in Carroll County to the late Rhuben Wheeler Abel and Iona Vance Abel.
Mr. Abel was retired from the Memphis plant of Bemis Company, Inc., where he had worked as a machinist. He attended Calvary Baptist Church in Carroll County while growing up and attended Southcrest Baptist Church most recently. He also served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
In addition to his parents, preceding Mr. Abel in death is his wife, Johnnie Lula Abel.
Survivors include a daughter, Patricia A. Brooks of Horn Lake; two sons, James Wheeler Abel of Collierville and George R. Worsham of Memphis; a sister, Wheeler Katherine Bardo of Grenada; a brother, Cecil Abel of Florence, Miss.; six grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
National Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
The Daily Star
March 11, 2009
Funeral services for George Y. "Todd" Abel, 83, of Horn Lake, are at 2 p.m. Thursday at National Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery in Carroll County.
Visitation is Thursday from noon to 2 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mr. Abel died March 10, 2009, at Baptist Memorial Hospital DeSoto in Southaven.
He was born on July 10, 1925, in Carroll County to the late Rhuben Wheeler Abel and Iona Vance Abel.
Mr. Abel was retired from the Memphis plant of Bemis Company, Inc., where he had worked as a machinist. He attended Calvary Baptist Church in Carroll County while growing up and attended Southcrest Baptist Church most recently. He also served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
In addition to his parents, preceding Mr. Abel in death is his wife, Johnnie Lula Abel.
Survivors include a daughter, Patricia A. Brooks of Horn Lake; two sons, James Wheeler Abel of Collierville and George R. Worsham of Memphis; a sister, Wheeler Katherine Bardo of Grenada; a brother, Cecil Abel of Florence, Miss.; six grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
National Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
The Daily Star
March 11, 2009
Visitation is Thursday from noon to 2 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mr. Abel died March 10, 2009, at Baptist Memorial Hospital DeSoto in Southaven.
He was born on July 10, 1925, in Carroll County to the late Rhuben Wheeler Abel and Iona Vance Abel.
Mr. Abel was retired from the Memphis plant of Bemis Company, Inc., where he had worked as a machinist. He attended Calvary Baptist Church in Carroll County while growing up and attended Southcrest Baptist Church most recently. He also served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
In addition to his parents, preceding Mr. Abel in death is his wife, Johnnie Lula Abel.
Survivors include a daughter, Patricia A. Brooks of Horn Lake; two sons, James Wheeler Abel of Collierville and George R. Worsham of Memphis; a sister, Wheeler Katherine Bardo of Grenada; a brother, Cecil Abel of Florence, Miss.; six grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
National Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
The Daily Star
March 11, 2009
Inscription
On in-ground gravestone --
GEORGE YANCIE ABEL
TEC 5 US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
JUL 10 1925 MAR 10 2009
On upright gravestone --
IN LOVING MEMORY
TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE
UNDER THE HEAVENS. ECCLESIASTES, 3:1
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