A. VAUGHAN ABERCROMBIE
1912-2009
Rev. A. Vaughan Abercrombie of Pensacola passed away on Tuesday, June 2. He was 96. He was the husband of Charlotte M. Abercrombie, a resident of the Azalea Trace retirement community in Pensacola, and the father of Lucia A. Harvilchuck, an English teacher at Pensacola High School for 21 years.
He was the son of Alex V. Abercrombie, Jr. and Mary Wilkinson Abercrombie of Nichols, Connecticut. He was born December 27, 1912, in Bridgeport, where his mother gave birth after traveling several miles in a horse-drawn wagon through a snowstorm to a midwife.
Rev. Abercrombie grew up in Nichols, graduated from Harding High School in Bridgeport, and worked as a YMCA secretary there before entering Marietta College in Ohio in 1933. While in college, he was a circuit pastor. He drove an old Durant touring car around to four small rural Congregational churches, preaching at two of them on alternate Sundays. After graduation in 1937, he served churches in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He also commuted to Harvard Divinity School for further theological training.
In 1956 Rev. Abercrombie drove his family - by then it included his wife, four children, a dog and a cat - across the country from Rhode Island to Washington State, where he accepted a call to First Congregational Church in Tacoma. From 1964-69 he led his denomination at the national level as Executive Secretary of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, headquartered in Milwaukee. Later he became minister of the Congregational church in East Orange, New Jersey. In 1981 Piedmont College in Georgia awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Rev. Abercrombie was also an inventor who held three U.S. patents, including one for an original design and operation of a plastic packaging machine.
After his retirement in 1978 to the New Jersey shore and later to Florida, he mastered computer technology and spent much time writing. He thought and wrote about what he called "our spiritual environment - the feelings, attitudes, values, and commitments that make us human and humane." He self-published two books: The Wisdom of Jesus (in Living Paraphrase) and Common Beliefs to Live By.
Besides his wife of 71 years, the former Charlotte Manning, and his daughter Lucia, who was married to the late Philip Harvilchuck of Pensacola, Rev. Abercrombie is survived by a sister, Helen A. Rogers, of Chardon, OH; another daughter, Lois A. Street, of Ridgefield, CT, and her husband James O. Street; two sons: Paul M. Abercrombie of Snoqualmie Pass, WA; and David M. Abercrombie of Marco Island, FL, and his fiancee Margi C. Adams.
Other survivors include four grandchildren: Sharon A. Street of Washington, DC, and her husband Serrin A. Turner; James Allan "Al" Street of Brooklyn, NY; Karen L. Kump of Belgrade, MT, and her husband Charles J. Kump; and Janet E. Abercrombie, a Marine in basic training at Parris Island, SC; and two great-grandsons: Oscar S. Turner of Washington, DC, and Mikhail J. Kump of Belgrade, MT. Rev. Abercrombie also had four nieces and five nephews.
His family wishes to express its deeply-felt gratitude for the kind, competent and personalized care given to Rev. Abercrombie during his 17-year residence at Azalea Trace.
A memorial service will be held in Pensacola at Azalea Trace, 10100 Hillview Road, on Sunday, July 26, at 3:00 pm. Commemorative donations may be made to: The A. Vaughan Abercrombie Memorial Fund, c/o Dr. Thomas M. Richard , National Association of Congregation Christian Churches, P.O. Box 288, Oak Creek, Wisconsin, 53154-0288
Published in the Pensacola News Journal from 7/19/2009 - 7/20/2009
1912-2009
Rev. A. Vaughan Abercrombie of Pensacola passed away on Tuesday, June 2. He was 96. He was the husband of Charlotte M. Abercrombie, a resident of the Azalea Trace retirement community in Pensacola, and the father of Lucia A. Harvilchuck, an English teacher at Pensacola High School for 21 years.
He was the son of Alex V. Abercrombie, Jr. and Mary Wilkinson Abercrombie of Nichols, Connecticut. He was born December 27, 1912, in Bridgeport, where his mother gave birth after traveling several miles in a horse-drawn wagon through a snowstorm to a midwife.
Rev. Abercrombie grew up in Nichols, graduated from Harding High School in Bridgeport, and worked as a YMCA secretary there before entering Marietta College in Ohio in 1933. While in college, he was a circuit pastor. He drove an old Durant touring car around to four small rural Congregational churches, preaching at two of them on alternate Sundays. After graduation in 1937, he served churches in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He also commuted to Harvard Divinity School for further theological training.
In 1956 Rev. Abercrombie drove his family - by then it included his wife, four children, a dog and a cat - across the country from Rhode Island to Washington State, where he accepted a call to First Congregational Church in Tacoma. From 1964-69 he led his denomination at the national level as Executive Secretary of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, headquartered in Milwaukee. Later he became minister of the Congregational church in East Orange, New Jersey. In 1981 Piedmont College in Georgia awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Rev. Abercrombie was also an inventor who held three U.S. patents, including one for an original design and operation of a plastic packaging machine.
After his retirement in 1978 to the New Jersey shore and later to Florida, he mastered computer technology and spent much time writing. He thought and wrote about what he called "our spiritual environment - the feelings, attitudes, values, and commitments that make us human and humane." He self-published two books: The Wisdom of Jesus (in Living Paraphrase) and Common Beliefs to Live By.
Besides his wife of 71 years, the former Charlotte Manning, and his daughter Lucia, who was married to the late Philip Harvilchuck of Pensacola, Rev. Abercrombie is survived by a sister, Helen A. Rogers, of Chardon, OH; another daughter, Lois A. Street, of Ridgefield, CT, and her husband James O. Street; two sons: Paul M. Abercrombie of Snoqualmie Pass, WA; and David M. Abercrombie of Marco Island, FL, and his fiancee Margi C. Adams.
Other survivors include four grandchildren: Sharon A. Street of Washington, DC, and her husband Serrin A. Turner; James Allan "Al" Street of Brooklyn, NY; Karen L. Kump of Belgrade, MT, and her husband Charles J. Kump; and Janet E. Abercrombie, a Marine in basic training at Parris Island, SC; and two great-grandsons: Oscar S. Turner of Washington, DC, and Mikhail J. Kump of Belgrade, MT. Rev. Abercrombie also had four nieces and five nephews.
His family wishes to express its deeply-felt gratitude for the kind, competent and personalized care given to Rev. Abercrombie during his 17-year residence at Azalea Trace.
A memorial service will be held in Pensacola at Azalea Trace, 10100 Hillview Road, on Sunday, July 26, at 3:00 pm. Commemorative donations may be made to: The A. Vaughan Abercrombie Memorial Fund, c/o Dr. Thomas M. Richard , National Association of Congregation Christian Churches, P.O. Box 288, Oak Creek, Wisconsin, 53154-0288
Published in the Pensacola News Journal from 7/19/2009 - 7/20/2009
A. VAUGHAN ABERCROMBIE
1912-2009
Rev. A. Vaughan Abercrombie of Pensacola passed away on Tuesday, June 2. He was 96. He was the husband of Charlotte M. Abercrombie, a resident of the Azalea Trace retirement community in Pensacola, and the father of Lucia A. Harvilchuck, an English teacher at Pensacola High School for 21 years.
He was the son of Alex V. Abercrombie, Jr. and Mary Wilkinson Abercrombie of Nichols, Connecticut. He was born December 27, 1912, in Bridgeport, where his mother gave birth after traveling several miles in a horse-drawn wagon through a snowstorm to a midwife.
Rev. Abercrombie grew up in Nichols, graduated from Harding High School in Bridgeport, and worked as a YMCA secretary there before entering Marietta College in Ohio in 1933. While in college, he was a circuit pastor. He drove an old Durant touring car around to four small rural Congregational churches, preaching at two of them on alternate Sundays. After graduation in 1937, he served churches in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He also commuted to Harvard Divinity School for further theological training.
In 1956 Rev. Abercrombie drove his family - by then it included his wife, four children, a dog and a cat - across the country from Rhode Island to Washington State, where he accepted a call to First Congregational Church in Tacoma. From 1964-69 he led his denomination at the national level as Executive Secretary of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, headquartered in Milwaukee. Later he became minister of the Congregational church in East Orange, New Jersey. In 1981 Piedmont College in Georgia awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Rev. Abercrombie was also an inventor who held three U.S. patents, including one for an original design and operation of a plastic packaging machine.
After his retirement in 1978 to the New Jersey shore and later to Florida, he mastered computer technology and spent much time writing. He thought and wrote about what he called "our spiritual environment - the feelings, attitudes, values, and commitments that make us human and humane." He self-published two books: The Wisdom of Jesus (in Living Paraphrase) and Common Beliefs to Live By.
Besides his wife of 71 years, the former Charlotte Manning, and his daughter Lucia, who was married to the late Philip Harvilchuck of Pensacola, Rev. Abercrombie is survived by a sister, Helen A. Rogers, of Chardon, OH; another daughter, Lois A. Street, of Ridgefield, CT, and her husband James O. Street; two sons: Paul M. Abercrombie of Snoqualmie Pass, WA; and David M. Abercrombie of Marco Island, FL, and his fiancee Margi C. Adams.
Other survivors include four grandchildren: Sharon A. Street of Washington, DC, and her husband Serrin A. Turner; James Allan "Al" Street of Brooklyn, NY; Karen L. Kump of Belgrade, MT, and her husband Charles J. Kump; and Janet E. Abercrombie, a Marine in basic training at Parris Island, SC; and two great-grandsons: Oscar S. Turner of Washington, DC, and Mikhail J. Kump of Belgrade, MT. Rev. Abercrombie also had four nieces and five nephews.
His family wishes to express its deeply-felt gratitude for the kind, competent and personalized care given to Rev. Abercrombie during his 17-year residence at Azalea Trace.
A memorial service will be held in Pensacola at Azalea Trace, 10100 Hillview Road, on Sunday, July 26, at 3:00 pm. Commemorative donations may be made to: The A. Vaughan Abercrombie Memorial Fund, c/o Dr. Thomas M. Richard , National Association of Congregation Christian Churches, P.O. Box 288, Oak Creek, Wisconsin, 53154-0288
Published in the Pensacola News Journal from 7/19/2009 - 7/20/2009
1912-2009
Rev. A. Vaughan Abercrombie of Pensacola passed away on Tuesday, June 2. He was 96. He was the husband of Charlotte M. Abercrombie, a resident of the Azalea Trace retirement community in Pensacola, and the father of Lucia A. Harvilchuck, an English teacher at Pensacola High School for 21 years.
He was the son of Alex V. Abercrombie, Jr. and Mary Wilkinson Abercrombie of Nichols, Connecticut. He was born December 27, 1912, in Bridgeport, where his mother gave birth after traveling several miles in a horse-drawn wagon through a snowstorm to a midwife.
Rev. Abercrombie grew up in Nichols, graduated from Harding High School in Bridgeport, and worked as a YMCA secretary there before entering Marietta College in Ohio in 1933. While in college, he was a circuit pastor. He drove an old Durant touring car around to four small rural Congregational churches, preaching at two of them on alternate Sundays. After graduation in 1937, he served churches in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He also commuted to Harvard Divinity School for further theological training.
In 1956 Rev. Abercrombie drove his family - by then it included his wife, four children, a dog and a cat - across the country from Rhode Island to Washington State, where he accepted a call to First Congregational Church in Tacoma. From 1964-69 he led his denomination at the national level as Executive Secretary of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, headquartered in Milwaukee. Later he became minister of the Congregational church in East Orange, New Jersey. In 1981 Piedmont College in Georgia awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Rev. Abercrombie was also an inventor who held three U.S. patents, including one for an original design and operation of a plastic packaging machine.
After his retirement in 1978 to the New Jersey shore and later to Florida, he mastered computer technology and spent much time writing. He thought and wrote about what he called "our spiritual environment - the feelings, attitudes, values, and commitments that make us human and humane." He self-published two books: The Wisdom of Jesus (in Living Paraphrase) and Common Beliefs to Live By.
Besides his wife of 71 years, the former Charlotte Manning, and his daughter Lucia, who was married to the late Philip Harvilchuck of Pensacola, Rev. Abercrombie is survived by a sister, Helen A. Rogers, of Chardon, OH; another daughter, Lois A. Street, of Ridgefield, CT, and her husband James O. Street; two sons: Paul M. Abercrombie of Snoqualmie Pass, WA; and David M. Abercrombie of Marco Island, FL, and his fiancee Margi C. Adams.
Other survivors include four grandchildren: Sharon A. Street of Washington, DC, and her husband Serrin A. Turner; James Allan "Al" Street of Brooklyn, NY; Karen L. Kump of Belgrade, MT, and her husband Charles J. Kump; and Janet E. Abercrombie, a Marine in basic training at Parris Island, SC; and two great-grandsons: Oscar S. Turner of Washington, DC, and Mikhail J. Kump of Belgrade, MT. Rev. Abercrombie also had four nieces and five nephews.
His family wishes to express its deeply-felt gratitude for the kind, competent and personalized care given to Rev. Abercrombie during his 17-year residence at Azalea Trace.
A memorial service will be held in Pensacola at Azalea Trace, 10100 Hillview Road, on Sunday, July 26, at 3:00 pm. Commemorative donations may be made to: The A. Vaughan Abercrombie Memorial Fund, c/o Dr. Thomas M. Richard , National Association of Congregation Christian Churches, P.O. Box 288, Oak Creek, Wisconsin, 53154-0288
Published in the Pensacola News Journal from 7/19/2009 - 7/20/2009
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