Dwight Abbott, 79, Viola resident
Dwight Ellis Abbott died at his home, Presby Road, Viola, on 18 Nov 2006, after complications from diabetes and a long illness.
Born 2 Jun 1927, to D. Eldon and Lily Abbott of Viola, Dwight lived most of his life in Latah County, attending Viola and Potlatch public schools. Anxious to take part in WWII, he joined the Navy with a short tour in Hawaii at war's end. Upon release from service he returned to the Palouse and worked as delivery truck driver for a local shipping company, construction laborer on several major projects at the University of Idaho (U of I) to include classroom and dormitory complexes and a nuclear power plant on the Columbia river. His last job was as a U of I custodian earning retirement and the traditional mantel clock.
His working years also included a partnership with his father in a tire sales and recapping business in the early 1950s. In the late 1950s he bought the family homestead outside Viola to try farming to supplement his "city" job, and in the mid 1960s he ran a Mobil gas station on Main Street, Moscow.
One summer season in the mid 1960s, he and a cousin pit mined for mica and ran a mica processing mill in the mountains outside Deary. On the verge of being profitable, this adventure ended abruptly with the death of the mill owner.
To each of these Dwight brought commitment and willingness to work, an abundance of humor, and an unequaled generosity to help whomever and whenever needed. While employment provided his livelihood, he was an avid outdoorsman with a lifelong love for the forests and waters of northern Idaho. His weekends and time off were spent with family camping and fishing along the creeks of the Palouse, digging for garnets in the many out of the way streambeds, falling, sawing, splitting and hauling firewood, and discovering new patches for huckleberry and wild mushroom picking. One of his last memorable outings was to Buffalo Lake, Washington, with wife Jean and numerous friends and family for fishing and telling stories about exploits of earlier years.
In his later years much of this energy turned to taming a 10 acre brush patch that is now the family home, a site of many Independence and Memorial Day family gatherings. Dwight was a past member of the Masonic Lodge, Moscow, and other fraternal lodges of Moscow, and a current member of the Princeton Grange. In recent years he and wife Jean were active in social groups in Princeton and Harvard.
He enjoyed work but not advancement. He enjoyed hunting but not the kill. He enjoyed his family and friends without reservation. Life for Dwight was in the doing of it and not the accumulation of trophies or titles. He will be remembered for his generosity, devotion to family and for a life well lived.
Dwight is survived by his wife; two sisters, one in Spokane and one in Anchorage, Alaska; three sons, one in Clifton, Virginia, one in Viola, and one in Moscow; a daughter in Troy. In addition, he is survived by nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren. [Survivor names omitted per Find a Grave policy.]
Viewing will be from noon to 8 p.m., Nov 24, Shorts Funeral Chapel, 1225 E 6th St, Moscow. The Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m., 25 Nov, Short's Funeral Chapel, with a dinner and reception of friends and family immediately following the service at the Moose Lodge, 210 N Main St, Moscow. Internment of Dwight's ashes will be at Viola Cemetery at a later date. Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Palouse, Gritman Medical Center, 700 South Main Street, Moscow, Idaho 83843, in lieu of flowers.
Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Dwight Ellis Abbott died at his home, Presby Road, Viola, on 18 Nov 2006, after complications from diabetes and a long illness.
Born 2 Jun 1927, to D. Eldon and Lily Abbott of Viola, Dwight lived most of his life in Latah County, attending Viola and Potlatch public schools. Anxious to take part in WWII, he joined the Navy with a short tour in Hawaii at war's end. Upon release from service he returned to the Palouse and worked as delivery truck driver for a local shipping company, construction laborer on several major projects at the University of Idaho (U of I) to include classroom and dormitory complexes and a nuclear power plant on the Columbia river. His last job was as a U of I custodian earning retirement and the traditional mantel clock.
His working years also included a partnership with his father in a tire sales and recapping business in the early 1950s. In the late 1950s he bought the family homestead outside Viola to try farming to supplement his "city" job, and in the mid 1960s he ran a Mobil gas station on Main Street, Moscow.
One summer season in the mid 1960s, he and a cousin pit mined for mica and ran a mica processing mill in the mountains outside Deary. On the verge of being profitable, this adventure ended abruptly with the death of the mill owner.
To each of these Dwight brought commitment and willingness to work, an abundance of humor, and an unequaled generosity to help whomever and whenever needed. While employment provided his livelihood, he was an avid outdoorsman with a lifelong love for the forests and waters of northern Idaho. His weekends and time off were spent with family camping and fishing along the creeks of the Palouse, digging for garnets in the many out of the way streambeds, falling, sawing, splitting and hauling firewood, and discovering new patches for huckleberry and wild mushroom picking. One of his last memorable outings was to Buffalo Lake, Washington, with wife Jean and numerous friends and family for fishing and telling stories about exploits of earlier years.
In his later years much of this energy turned to taming a 10 acre brush patch that is now the family home, a site of many Independence and Memorial Day family gatherings. Dwight was a past member of the Masonic Lodge, Moscow, and other fraternal lodges of Moscow, and a current member of the Princeton Grange. In recent years he and wife Jean were active in social groups in Princeton and Harvard.
He enjoyed work but not advancement. He enjoyed hunting but not the kill. He enjoyed his family and friends without reservation. Life for Dwight was in the doing of it and not the accumulation of trophies or titles. He will be remembered for his generosity, devotion to family and for a life well lived.
Dwight is survived by his wife; two sisters, one in Spokane and one in Anchorage, Alaska; three sons, one in Clifton, Virginia, one in Viola, and one in Moscow; a daughter in Troy. In addition, he is survived by nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren. [Survivor names omitted per Find a Grave policy.]
Viewing will be from noon to 8 p.m., Nov 24, Shorts Funeral Chapel, 1225 E 6th St, Moscow. The Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m., 25 Nov, Short's Funeral Chapel, with a dinner and reception of friends and family immediately following the service at the Moose Lodge, 210 N Main St, Moscow. Internment of Dwight's ashes will be at Viola Cemetery at a later date. Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Palouse, Gritman Medical Center, 700 South Main Street, Moscow, Idaho 83843, in lieu of flowers.
Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Dwight Abbott, 79, Viola resident
Dwight Ellis Abbott died at his home, Presby Road, Viola, on 18 Nov 2006, after complications from diabetes and a long illness.
Born 2 Jun 1927, to D. Eldon and Lily Abbott of Viola, Dwight lived most of his life in Latah County, attending Viola and Potlatch public schools. Anxious to take part in WWII, he joined the Navy with a short tour in Hawaii at war's end. Upon release from service he returned to the Palouse and worked as delivery truck driver for a local shipping company, construction laborer on several major projects at the University of Idaho (U of I) to include classroom and dormitory complexes and a nuclear power plant on the Columbia river. His last job was as a U of I custodian earning retirement and the traditional mantel clock.
His working years also included a partnership with his father in a tire sales and recapping business in the early 1950s. In the late 1950s he bought the family homestead outside Viola to try farming to supplement his "city" job, and in the mid 1960s he ran a Mobil gas station on Main Street, Moscow.
One summer season in the mid 1960s, he and a cousin pit mined for mica and ran a mica processing mill in the mountains outside Deary. On the verge of being profitable, this adventure ended abruptly with the death of the mill owner.
To each of these Dwight brought commitment and willingness to work, an abundance of humor, and an unequaled generosity to help whomever and whenever needed. While employment provided his livelihood, he was an avid outdoorsman with a lifelong love for the forests and waters of northern Idaho. His weekends and time off were spent with family camping and fishing along the creeks of the Palouse, digging for garnets in the many out of the way streambeds, falling, sawing, splitting and hauling firewood, and discovering new patches for huckleberry and wild mushroom picking. One of his last memorable outings was to Buffalo Lake, Washington, with wife Jean and numerous friends and family for fishing and telling stories about exploits of earlier years.
In his later years much of this energy turned to taming a 10 acre brush patch that is now the family home, a site of many Independence and Memorial Day family gatherings. Dwight was a past member of the Masonic Lodge, Moscow, and other fraternal lodges of Moscow, and a current member of the Princeton Grange. In recent years he and wife Jean were active in social groups in Princeton and Harvard.
He enjoyed work but not advancement. He enjoyed hunting but not the kill. He enjoyed his family and friends without reservation. Life for Dwight was in the doing of it and not the accumulation of trophies or titles. He will be remembered for his generosity, devotion to family and for a life well lived.
Dwight is survived by his wife; two sisters, one in Spokane and one in Anchorage, Alaska; three sons, one in Clifton, Virginia, one in Viola, and one in Moscow; a daughter in Troy. In addition, he is survived by nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren. [Survivor names omitted per Find a Grave policy.]
Viewing will be from noon to 8 p.m., Nov 24, Shorts Funeral Chapel, 1225 E 6th St, Moscow. The Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m., 25 Nov, Short's Funeral Chapel, with a dinner and reception of friends and family immediately following the service at the Moose Lodge, 210 N Main St, Moscow. Internment of Dwight's ashes will be at Viola Cemetery at a later date. Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Palouse, Gritman Medical Center, 700 South Main Street, Moscow, Idaho 83843, in lieu of flowers.
Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Dwight Ellis Abbott died at his home, Presby Road, Viola, on 18 Nov 2006, after complications from diabetes and a long illness.
Born 2 Jun 1927, to D. Eldon and Lily Abbott of Viola, Dwight lived most of his life in Latah County, attending Viola and Potlatch public schools. Anxious to take part in WWII, he joined the Navy with a short tour in Hawaii at war's end. Upon release from service he returned to the Palouse and worked as delivery truck driver for a local shipping company, construction laborer on several major projects at the University of Idaho (U of I) to include classroom and dormitory complexes and a nuclear power plant on the Columbia river. His last job was as a U of I custodian earning retirement and the traditional mantel clock.
His working years also included a partnership with his father in a tire sales and recapping business in the early 1950s. In the late 1950s he bought the family homestead outside Viola to try farming to supplement his "city" job, and in the mid 1960s he ran a Mobil gas station on Main Street, Moscow.
One summer season in the mid 1960s, he and a cousin pit mined for mica and ran a mica processing mill in the mountains outside Deary. On the verge of being profitable, this adventure ended abruptly with the death of the mill owner.
To each of these Dwight brought commitment and willingness to work, an abundance of humor, and an unequaled generosity to help whomever and whenever needed. While employment provided his livelihood, he was an avid outdoorsman with a lifelong love for the forests and waters of northern Idaho. His weekends and time off were spent with family camping and fishing along the creeks of the Palouse, digging for garnets in the many out of the way streambeds, falling, sawing, splitting and hauling firewood, and discovering new patches for huckleberry and wild mushroom picking. One of his last memorable outings was to Buffalo Lake, Washington, with wife Jean and numerous friends and family for fishing and telling stories about exploits of earlier years.
In his later years much of this energy turned to taming a 10 acre brush patch that is now the family home, a site of many Independence and Memorial Day family gatherings. Dwight was a past member of the Masonic Lodge, Moscow, and other fraternal lodges of Moscow, and a current member of the Princeton Grange. In recent years he and wife Jean were active in social groups in Princeton and Harvard.
He enjoyed work but not advancement. He enjoyed hunting but not the kill. He enjoyed his family and friends without reservation. Life for Dwight was in the doing of it and not the accumulation of trophies or titles. He will be remembered for his generosity, devotion to family and for a life well lived.
Dwight is survived by his wife; two sisters, one in Spokane and one in Anchorage, Alaska; three sons, one in Clifton, Virginia, one in Viola, and one in Moscow; a daughter in Troy. In addition, he is survived by nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren. [Survivor names omitted per Find a Grave policy.]
Viewing will be from noon to 8 p.m., Nov 24, Shorts Funeral Chapel, 1225 E 6th St, Moscow. The Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m., 25 Nov, Short's Funeral Chapel, with a dinner and reception of friends and family immediately following the service at the Moose Lodge, 210 N Main St, Moscow. Internment of Dwight's ashes will be at Viola Cemetery at a later date. Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Palouse, Gritman Medical Center, 700 South Main Street, Moscow, Idaho 83843, in lieu of flowers.
Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Tuesday, 21 November 2006
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