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Warren Dwight Abbott Jr.

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Warren Dwight Abbott Jr. Veteran

Birth
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA
Death
10 Nov 1994 (aged 86)
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Burial
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 3, Lot 887, Space E 1/2 16
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Warren Dwight Abbott, 86, of Westminster Manor in Austin died Thursday, November 10, 1994.

He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on November 28, 1907. Warren served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theatre from 1942 until 1945. He received a B. A. in English Literature from Yale University in 1930, and a M.A. in English Literature from the University of Missouri in 1940.

Mr. Abbot was a journalist having worked for the Tulsa World, Chicago Tribune, and Brownsville Times newspapers, and also as a freelance writer for trade publications.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Warren Dwight Abbott and Ruth Schwartz Abbott, his brothers, Fred Joyce Abbott and Reverend Paul Robert Abbott, his first wife, Dorothea Thompson Abbott and his second wife, Ruth Junkin Abbott.

He is survived by a number of nieces, nephews, and cousins.

The funeral service will be held at Oakwood Cemetery at 2:00 PM, Saturday, under the auspices of Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home. A memorial service will be held in the chapel at Westminster Manor at 2:00 PM, on Wednesday, November 16, with Reverend Nancy Reeves presiding.

Arrangements by Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home, 3125 N. Lamar.
Warren Dwight Abbott, 86, of Westminster Manor in Austin died Thursday, November 10, 1994.

He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on November 28, 1907. Warren served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theatre from 1942 until 1945. He received a B. A. in English Literature from Yale University in 1930, and a M.A. in English Literature from the University of Missouri in 1940.

Mr. Abbot was a journalist having worked for the Tulsa World, Chicago Tribune, and Brownsville Times newspapers, and also as a freelance writer for trade publications.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Warren Dwight Abbott and Ruth Schwartz Abbott, his brothers, Fred Joyce Abbott and Reverend Paul Robert Abbott, his first wife, Dorothea Thompson Abbott and his second wife, Ruth Junkin Abbott.

He is survived by a number of nieces, nephews, and cousins.

The funeral service will be held at Oakwood Cemetery at 2:00 PM, Saturday, under the auspices of Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home. A memorial service will be held in the chapel at Westminster Manor at 2:00 PM, on Wednesday, November 16, with Reverend Nancy Reeves presiding.

Arrangements by Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home, 3125 N. Lamar.


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