Tom Harold Abrams, one of eight children of John and Ollie (Green) Abrams, was born on a farm near Cameron, Oklahoma, on July 4, 1912, and passed away in his home in Angus, Nebraska, on May 3, 1989, at the age of 76 years, 10 months and 3 days.
Tom attended Elgin, Oklahoma, high school, earned his bachelors degree from Oklahoma A & M at Stillwater, Oklahoma, and attended the University of Nebraska.
Tom served his country in the United States Army during World War II from July 24, 1942, until August 20, 1943, as a private.
On August 30, 1944, in Hastings, Nebraska, he was united in marriage to Florence C. Cooke. This union was blessed with four children.
He was a school teacher and had taught schools in several Nebraska communities - Belvidere, Ong, Imperial, Holstein and Thurston and also in Buffalo, Montana.
Tom was an outdoors man. He loved to go fishing, spent many hours in his garden and as a young man loved to go coon hunting.
Preceding him in death were his parents; four brothers, Bose, John, Dolphus and Buster Abrams; two sisters, Bessie Corcoran and Thelma Laux.
Survivors include his wife Florence; two daughters, Linda Rae Haney of Bakersfield, California, and Meridel Abrams of Angus; two sons, Thomas Clayton and his wife Wanda Abrams of Hastings, and Herbert Abrams of Lincoln; one sister, Helen and her husband Leo Keeney of Lawton, Oklahoma; two grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of friends.
Graveside services were held May 6 at 11 a.m. at the Edgar Cemetery with Reverend David Sellers officiating. Burial was in the Edgar Cemetery. Arrangements were by Klawitter-Price Funeral Home, Nelson.
The Nelson Gazette (Nelson, NE), Thursday, May 11, 1989; pg. 5
Tom attended Elgin, Oklahoma, high school, earned his bachelors degree from Oklahoma A & M at Stillwater, Oklahoma, and attended the University of Nebraska.
Tom served his country in the United States Army during World War II from July 24, 1942, until August 20, 1943, as a private.
On August 30, 1944, in Hastings, Nebraska, he was united in marriage to Florence C. Cooke. This union was blessed with four children.
He was a school teacher and had taught schools in several Nebraska communities - Belvidere, Ong, Imperial, Holstein and Thurston and also in Buffalo, Montana.
Tom was an outdoors man. He loved to go fishing, spent many hours in his garden and as a young man loved to go coon hunting.
Preceding him in death were his parents; four brothers, Bose, John, Dolphus and Buster Abrams; two sisters, Bessie Corcoran and Thelma Laux.
Survivors include his wife Florence; two daughters, Linda Rae Haney of Bakersfield, California, and Meridel Abrams of Angus; two sons, Thomas Clayton and his wife Wanda Abrams of Hastings, and Herbert Abrams of Lincoln; one sister, Helen and her husband Leo Keeney of Lawton, Oklahoma; two grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of friends.
Graveside services were held May 6 at 11 a.m. at the Edgar Cemetery with Reverend David Sellers officiating. Burial was in the Edgar Cemetery. Arrangements were by Klawitter-Price Funeral Home, Nelson.
The Nelson Gazette (Nelson, NE), Thursday, May 11, 1989; pg. 5
Tom Harold Abrams, one of eight children of John and Ollie (Green) Abrams, was born on a farm near Cameron, Oklahoma, on July 4, 1912, and passed away in his home in Angus, Nebraska, on May 3, 1989, at the age of 76 years, 10 months and 3 days.
Tom attended Elgin, Oklahoma, high school, earned his bachelors degree from Oklahoma A & M at Stillwater, Oklahoma, and attended the University of Nebraska.
Tom served his country in the United States Army during World War II from July 24, 1942, until August 20, 1943, as a private.
On August 30, 1944, in Hastings, Nebraska, he was united in marriage to Florence C. Cooke. This union was blessed with four children.
He was a school teacher and had taught schools in several Nebraska communities - Belvidere, Ong, Imperial, Holstein and Thurston and also in Buffalo, Montana.
Tom was an outdoors man. He loved to go fishing, spent many hours in his garden and as a young man loved to go coon hunting.
Preceding him in death were his parents; four brothers, Bose, John, Dolphus and Buster Abrams; two sisters, Bessie Corcoran and Thelma Laux.
Survivors include his wife Florence; two daughters, Linda Rae Haney of Bakersfield, California, and Meridel Abrams of Angus; two sons, Thomas Clayton and his wife Wanda Abrams of Hastings, and Herbert Abrams of Lincoln; one sister, Helen and her husband Leo Keeney of Lawton, Oklahoma; two grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of friends.
Graveside services were held May 6 at 11 a.m. at the Edgar Cemetery with Reverend David Sellers officiating. Burial was in the Edgar Cemetery. Arrangements were by Klawitter-Price Funeral Home, Nelson.
The Nelson Gazette (Nelson, NE), Thursday, May 11, 1989; pg. 5
Tom attended Elgin, Oklahoma, high school, earned his bachelors degree from Oklahoma A & M at Stillwater, Oklahoma, and attended the University of Nebraska.
Tom served his country in the United States Army during World War II from July 24, 1942, until August 20, 1943, as a private.
On August 30, 1944, in Hastings, Nebraska, he was united in marriage to Florence C. Cooke. This union was blessed with four children.
He was a school teacher and had taught schools in several Nebraska communities - Belvidere, Ong, Imperial, Holstein and Thurston and also in Buffalo, Montana.
Tom was an outdoors man. He loved to go fishing, spent many hours in his garden and as a young man loved to go coon hunting.
Preceding him in death were his parents; four brothers, Bose, John, Dolphus and Buster Abrams; two sisters, Bessie Corcoran and Thelma Laux.
Survivors include his wife Florence; two daughters, Linda Rae Haney of Bakersfield, California, and Meridel Abrams of Angus; two sons, Thomas Clayton and his wife Wanda Abrams of Hastings, and Herbert Abrams of Lincoln; one sister, Helen and her husband Leo Keeney of Lawton, Oklahoma; two grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of friends.
Graveside services were held May 6 at 11 a.m. at the Edgar Cemetery with Reverend David Sellers officiating. Burial was in the Edgar Cemetery. Arrangements were by Klawitter-Price Funeral Home, Nelson.
The Nelson Gazette (Nelson, NE), Thursday, May 11, 1989; pg. 5
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