From the February 11, 2001, edition of The Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA)
DAVENPORT -- Services for Floyd E. Abbott, 78, Davenport, will be 1 p.m. Monday at Runge Mortuary, Davenport. Burial will be in Davenport Memorial Park.
Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today at the mortuary.
Mr. Abbott died Thursday, Feb. 8, 2001, at Genesis Medical Center-West Campus, Davenport.
He worked a variety of positions as a skilled craftsman and precision grinder in local industry between 1944 to 1963. In 1963, he became a letter carrier with the U.S. Postal Service. He retired in 1979.
He was born Dec. 18, 1922, in Putnam County, Mo. He married Betty Blocker in 1947 in Muscatine, Iowa. She died in 1998.
During World War II, he served in the Navy. He received two Purple Hearts and participated in the First Day Raid over Tokyo.
Memorials may be made to the family.
Survivors include daughters, Janet Eckhart, Phyllis Hughes and Peggy Spencer, all of Davenport, and Barbara Nicewanner, Eldridge, Iowa; a son, Kevin, Davenport; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a sister, Evelyn Czichas, Davenport.
DAVENPORT -- Services for Floyd E. Abbott, 78, Davenport, will be 1 p.m. Monday at Runge Mortuary, Davenport. Burial will be in Davenport Memorial Park.
Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today at the mortuary.
Mr. Abbott died Thursday, Feb. 8, 2001, at Genesis Medical Center-West Campus, Davenport.
He worked a variety of positions as a skilled craftsman and precision grinder in local industry between 1944 to 1963. In 1963, he became a letter carrier with the U.S. Postal Service. He retired in 1979.
He was born Dec. 18, 1922, in Putnam County, Mo. He married Betty Blocker in 1947 in Muscatine, Iowa. She died in 1998.
During World War II, he served in the Navy. He received two Purple Hearts and participated in the First Day Raid over Tokyo.
Memorials may be made to the family.
Survivors include daughters, Janet Eckhart, Phyllis Hughes and Peggy Spencer, all of Davenport, and Barbara Nicewanner, Eldridge, Iowa; a son, Kevin, Davenport; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a sister, Evelyn Czichas, Davenport.
From the February 11, 2001, edition of The Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA)
DAVENPORT -- Services for Floyd E. Abbott, 78, Davenport, will be 1 p.m. Monday at Runge Mortuary, Davenport. Burial will be in Davenport Memorial Park.
Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today at the mortuary.
Mr. Abbott died Thursday, Feb. 8, 2001, at Genesis Medical Center-West Campus, Davenport.
He worked a variety of positions as a skilled craftsman and precision grinder in local industry between 1944 to 1963. In 1963, he became a letter carrier with the U.S. Postal Service. He retired in 1979.
He was born Dec. 18, 1922, in Putnam County, Mo. He married Betty Blocker in 1947 in Muscatine, Iowa. She died in 1998.
During World War II, he served in the Navy. He received two Purple Hearts and participated in the First Day Raid over Tokyo.
Memorials may be made to the family.
Survivors include daughters, Janet Eckhart, Phyllis Hughes and Peggy Spencer, all of Davenport, and Barbara Nicewanner, Eldridge, Iowa; a son, Kevin, Davenport; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a sister, Evelyn Czichas, Davenport.
DAVENPORT -- Services for Floyd E. Abbott, 78, Davenport, will be 1 p.m. Monday at Runge Mortuary, Davenport. Burial will be in Davenport Memorial Park.
Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today at the mortuary.
Mr. Abbott died Thursday, Feb. 8, 2001, at Genesis Medical Center-West Campus, Davenport.
He worked a variety of positions as a skilled craftsman and precision grinder in local industry between 1944 to 1963. In 1963, he became a letter carrier with the U.S. Postal Service. He retired in 1979.
He was born Dec. 18, 1922, in Putnam County, Mo. He married Betty Blocker in 1947 in Muscatine, Iowa. She died in 1998.
During World War II, he served in the Navy. He received two Purple Hearts and participated in the First Day Raid over Tokyo.
Memorials may be made to the family.
Survivors include daughters, Janet Eckhart, Phyllis Hughes and Peggy Spencer, all of Davenport, and Barbara Nicewanner, Eldridge, Iowa; a son, Kevin, Davenport; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a sister, Evelyn Czichas, Davenport.
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