Randell M. Abbott, 34, died Thursday at 11:30 a. m. in Woodlawn hospital, Rochester, of injuries incurred in a truck-auto collision Saturday that took the lives of his wife and their only child.
Credit manager of the Palais Royal store here, he was born near Lafayette and spent all his life in this community.
He was a World war II veteran and a member of the Knights of Colum bus, Fraternal Order of Eagles and St. Boniface Catholic church.
The family had been bound for a three-day vacation on Lake Manitou, near Rochester, when the tragedy occurred.
The child, Gregory, 2, was killed instantly. Abbott's wife, Regina, 32, died before she could be taken to the hospital. The wife and child were buried Wednesday at Oxford.
Surviving Abbott are his mother, Mrs. Grant VanMeter; a brother, Forest; three sisters, Mrs. Lee Baker, Mrs. William Angstadt and Mrs. John Acker,
Journal and Courier
Lafayette, Indiana
01 Sep 1949,
Credit manager of the Palais Royal store here, he was born near Lafayette and spent all his life in this community.
He was a World war II veteran and a member of the Knights of Colum bus, Fraternal Order of Eagles and St. Boniface Catholic church.
The family had been bound for a three-day vacation on Lake Manitou, near Rochester, when the tragedy occurred.
The child, Gregory, 2, was killed instantly. Abbott's wife, Regina, 32, died before she could be taken to the hospital. The wife and child were buried Wednesday at Oxford.
Surviving Abbott are his mother, Mrs. Grant VanMeter; a brother, Forest; three sisters, Mrs. Lee Baker, Mrs. William Angstadt and Mrs. John Acker,
Journal and Courier
Lafayette, Indiana
01 Sep 1949,
Randell M. Abbott, 34, died Thursday at 11:30 a. m. in Woodlawn hospital, Rochester, of injuries incurred in a truck-auto collision Saturday that took the lives of his wife and their only child.
Credit manager of the Palais Royal store here, he was born near Lafayette and spent all his life in this community.
He was a World war II veteran and a member of the Knights of Colum bus, Fraternal Order of Eagles and St. Boniface Catholic church.
The family had been bound for a three-day vacation on Lake Manitou, near Rochester, when the tragedy occurred.
The child, Gregory, 2, was killed instantly. Abbott's wife, Regina, 32, died before she could be taken to the hospital. The wife and child were buried Wednesday at Oxford.
Surviving Abbott are his mother, Mrs. Grant VanMeter; a brother, Forest; three sisters, Mrs. Lee Baker, Mrs. William Angstadt and Mrs. John Acker,
Journal and Courier
Lafayette, Indiana
01 Sep 1949,
Credit manager of the Palais Royal store here, he was born near Lafayette and spent all his life in this community.
He was a World war II veteran and a member of the Knights of Colum bus, Fraternal Order of Eagles and St. Boniface Catholic church.
The family had been bound for a three-day vacation on Lake Manitou, near Rochester, when the tragedy occurred.
The child, Gregory, 2, was killed instantly. Abbott's wife, Regina, 32, died before she could be taken to the hospital. The wife and child were buried Wednesday at Oxford.
Surviving Abbott are his mother, Mrs. Grant VanMeter; a brother, Forest; three sisters, Mrs. Lee Baker, Mrs. William Angstadt and Mrs. John Acker,
Journal and Courier
Lafayette, Indiana
01 Sep 1949,
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