Local Captain
Vietnam Victim
A Hopkinsville woman has been informed that her husband was killed in Vietnam after receiving notification last September that he was missing in action.
Mrs. Charles S. Abel, a resident of Marietta Dr., received notification Sunday that Capt. Abel had died of wounds suffered in battle.
She is the former Miss Mary Anne Thomas of this city. The Abels have two children, Tonya Jill, 5, and Charles Scott, 2.
The information received Sunday was the first word she had from the military authorities since the first notification last fall.
Abel will be returned here for burial with Fuqua-Hinton Funeral Home to be in charge. Final arrangements have as yet not been made.
Abel is a native of Modesto, Calif., where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Abel, still live.
He was stationed at Ft. Campbell for about six years with the 101st Airborne Division before being sent to Vietnam. A career officer, he had been in the service for 11 years.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Mineral Wells, Tex.
Mrs. Abel hasn't been informed of details concerning her husband's death; however, he was a helicopter pilot and it is thought that he died as a result of a helicopter accident.
--Kentucky New Era, Monday, June 12, 1967, page 1
Local Captain
Vietnam Victim
A Hopkinsville woman has been informed that her husband was killed in Vietnam after receiving notification last September that he was missing in action.
Mrs. Charles S. Abel, a resident of Marietta Dr., received notification Sunday that Capt. Abel had died of wounds suffered in battle.
She is the former Miss Mary Anne Thomas of this city. The Abels have two children, Tonya Jill, 5, and Charles Scott, 2.
The information received Sunday was the first word she had from the military authorities since the first notification last fall.
Abel will be returned here for burial with Fuqua-Hinton Funeral Home to be in charge. Final arrangements have as yet not been made.
Abel is a native of Modesto, Calif., where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Abel, still live.
He was stationed at Ft. Campbell for about six years with the 101st Airborne Division before being sent to Vietnam. A career officer, he had been in the service for 11 years.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Mineral Wells, Tex.
Mrs. Abel hasn't been informed of details concerning her husband's death; however, he was a helicopter pilot and it is thought that he died as a result of a helicopter accident.
--Kentucky New Era, Monday, June 12, 1967, page 1
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