Father - Charles A. Haviland
Mother - Lena M. Kelman
Obituary:
CHARLOTTE H. ABBOTT
Published: The Charleston Gazette, Monday, July 24, 1995
ABBOTT, Charlotte Haviland -- Service will be 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Baptist Temple, with the Rev. John D. Elliot officiating.
Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park, South Charleston. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Bartlett-Burdette-Cox Funeral Home.
Abbot, 81, of Charleston died July 22, 1995, at home after a long illness.
She was a member of the Baptist Temple, Dance Masters of America and was director and owner of Nelson Transfer and Storage Company.
She was born in Chicago. Her father, the late Charles A. Haviland was an architect and planner of the town of Nitro.
She was a graduate of Charleston High School and pursued formal ballet training in New York at the Chaliff Russian Ballet School and performed at Carnegie Hall in 1932.
She began her first Abbot Dance Studio in South Charleston, and formed others in St. Albans, Nitro, Dunbar, Montgomery, Marmet, Clendenin, Seth, Summersville and Kanawha City.
She also formed the Abbot Dancers, who performed throughout West Virginia.
Surviving: sons, Haviland Harris of McLean, Va., Walter Houghton III of Charleston; sister, Lucille Bartells of Mount Sterling, Ky.; two grandchildren.
Mother - Lena M. Kelman
Obituary:
CHARLOTTE H. ABBOTT
Published: The Charleston Gazette, Monday, July 24, 1995
ABBOTT, Charlotte Haviland -- Service will be 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Baptist Temple, with the Rev. John D. Elliot officiating.
Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park, South Charleston. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Bartlett-Burdette-Cox Funeral Home.
Abbot, 81, of Charleston died July 22, 1995, at home after a long illness.
She was a member of the Baptist Temple, Dance Masters of America and was director and owner of Nelson Transfer and Storage Company.
She was born in Chicago. Her father, the late Charles A. Haviland was an architect and planner of the town of Nitro.
She was a graduate of Charleston High School and pursued formal ballet training in New York at the Chaliff Russian Ballet School and performed at Carnegie Hall in 1932.
She began her first Abbot Dance Studio in South Charleston, and formed others in St. Albans, Nitro, Dunbar, Montgomery, Marmet, Clendenin, Seth, Summersville and Kanawha City.
She also formed the Abbot Dancers, who performed throughout West Virginia.
Surviving: sons, Haviland Harris of McLean, Va., Walter Houghton III of Charleston; sister, Lucille Bartells of Mount Sterling, Ky.; two grandchildren.
Father - Charles A. Haviland
Mother - Lena M. Kelman
Obituary:
CHARLOTTE H. ABBOTT
Published: The Charleston Gazette, Monday, July 24, 1995
ABBOTT, Charlotte Haviland -- Service will be 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Baptist Temple, with the Rev. John D. Elliot officiating.
Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park, South Charleston. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Bartlett-Burdette-Cox Funeral Home.
Abbot, 81, of Charleston died July 22, 1995, at home after a long illness.
She was a member of the Baptist Temple, Dance Masters of America and was director and owner of Nelson Transfer and Storage Company.
She was born in Chicago. Her father, the late Charles A. Haviland was an architect and planner of the town of Nitro.
She was a graduate of Charleston High School and pursued formal ballet training in New York at the Chaliff Russian Ballet School and performed at Carnegie Hall in 1932.
She began her first Abbot Dance Studio in South Charleston, and formed others in St. Albans, Nitro, Dunbar, Montgomery, Marmet, Clendenin, Seth, Summersville and Kanawha City.
She also formed the Abbot Dancers, who performed throughout West Virginia.
Surviving: sons, Haviland Harris of McLean, Va., Walter Houghton III of Charleston; sister, Lucille Bartells of Mount Sterling, Ky.; two grandchildren.
Mother - Lena M. Kelman
Obituary:
CHARLOTTE H. ABBOTT
Published: The Charleston Gazette, Monday, July 24, 1995
ABBOTT, Charlotte Haviland -- Service will be 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Baptist Temple, with the Rev. John D. Elliot officiating.
Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park, South Charleston. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Bartlett-Burdette-Cox Funeral Home.
Abbot, 81, of Charleston died July 22, 1995, at home after a long illness.
She was a member of the Baptist Temple, Dance Masters of America and was director and owner of Nelson Transfer and Storage Company.
She was born in Chicago. Her father, the late Charles A. Haviland was an architect and planner of the town of Nitro.
She was a graduate of Charleston High School and pursued formal ballet training in New York at the Chaliff Russian Ballet School and performed at Carnegie Hall in 1932.
She began her first Abbot Dance Studio in South Charleston, and formed others in St. Albans, Nitro, Dunbar, Montgomery, Marmet, Clendenin, Seth, Summersville and Kanawha City.
She also formed the Abbot Dancers, who performed throughout West Virginia.
Surviving: sons, Haviland Harris of McLean, Va., Walter Houghton III of Charleston; sister, Lucille Bartells of Mount Sterling, Ky.; two grandchildren.
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