Mr. Earl Hatheway Abbe
Age: 85 yrs. 6 mos. 26 dys.
S/O Earl Clifton Abbe, I (29 Dec 1880-21 Jun 1948) & Edith Irene (Hatheway) Abbe (24 Nov 1878-11 Nov 1975)
H/O Martha Anna (Jorgensen) Abbe (23 Aug 1912-25 Aug 1984); m. 27 Aug 1932, South Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
- F/O Lois Ann (Abbe) Gallup
- F/O Earl Clifton Abbe, II
Last Residence: Newbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire 03255, USA
Earl Hatheway Abbe, my father, was a quiet man, skilled with his hands.
He went to elementary school in a one-room schoolhouse in Windsor Locks, CT and graduated from Technical High School in Springfield, MA. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute but was expelled because he was an officer (treasurer) of a fraternity involved in a hazing incident. MIT accepted him warmly despite this and he graduated from there with an engineering degree.
He entered the work force in the Depression and soon married. His first job was pounding hinges and the couple survived with assistance—grocery money—from his parents. Soon they moved to Springfield, VT and a new job. He built a Sears prefab house there. He made his work area there so efficient that the company no longer needed him and he returned to Springfield, MA and a position as metallurgist with the Springfield Armory that he held for the rest of his working life.
As a munitions maker he was deferred from the World War II draft. I remember that during the war for heat we burned big stacks of spoiled gunstocks he obtained.
In the war year summers he sent his wife and children to be the sole occupiers of his father's rambling old hotel by Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire. (This put us out of the city heat and we did provide some protection for the estate.)
In 1949, my father built a cabin on part of that property and it served as the family summer home and gathering place until after his death.
Having made prudent, successful investments my parents bought a small apartment in Boynton Beach, FL and, when he retired, they lived the summers in New Hampshire at the cottage and the winters in Boynton Beach.
He was a Boston Red Sox fan, a Freemason and a Shriner. He liked quiet social gatherings, played a good game of cards, enjoyed a drink and always was stoking his pipe.
My mother was the social member of the family and my father followed her lead in these matters. He served as Worthy Patron to her Worthy Matron in the Eastern Star. After his wife died he slowed down and bit-by-bit simply gave up life, dying of systemic failure seven years later in the cabin in New Hampshire. (bio by: Earl Abbe)
Listed in entry 838 (Daniel Osborn Abbe) of "Abbe-Abbey Genealogy: In Memory of John Abbe and His Descendants" by Cleveland Abbe and Josephine Genung Nichols, 1916
Mr. Earl Hatheway Abbe
Age: 85 yrs. 6 mos. 26 dys.
S/O Earl Clifton Abbe, I (29 Dec 1880-21 Jun 1948) & Edith Irene (Hatheway) Abbe (24 Nov 1878-11 Nov 1975)
H/O Martha Anna (Jorgensen) Abbe (23 Aug 1912-25 Aug 1984); m. 27 Aug 1932, South Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
- F/O Lois Ann (Abbe) Gallup
- F/O Earl Clifton Abbe, II
Last Residence: Newbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire 03255, USA
Earl Hatheway Abbe, my father, was a quiet man, skilled with his hands.
He went to elementary school in a one-room schoolhouse in Windsor Locks, CT and graduated from Technical High School in Springfield, MA. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute but was expelled because he was an officer (treasurer) of a fraternity involved in a hazing incident. MIT accepted him warmly despite this and he graduated from there with an engineering degree.
He entered the work force in the Depression and soon married. His first job was pounding hinges and the couple survived with assistance—grocery money—from his parents. Soon they moved to Springfield, VT and a new job. He built a Sears prefab house there. He made his work area there so efficient that the company no longer needed him and he returned to Springfield, MA and a position as metallurgist with the Springfield Armory that he held for the rest of his working life.
As a munitions maker he was deferred from the World War II draft. I remember that during the war for heat we burned big stacks of spoiled gunstocks he obtained.
In the war year summers he sent his wife and children to be the sole occupiers of his father's rambling old hotel by Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire. (This put us out of the city heat and we did provide some protection for the estate.)
In 1949, my father built a cabin on part of that property and it served as the family summer home and gathering place until after his death.
Having made prudent, successful investments my parents bought a small apartment in Boynton Beach, FL and, when he retired, they lived the summers in New Hampshire at the cottage and the winters in Boynton Beach.
He was a Boston Red Sox fan, a Freemason and a Shriner. He liked quiet social gatherings, played a good game of cards, enjoyed a drink and always was stoking his pipe.
My mother was the social member of the family and my father followed her lead in these matters. He served as Worthy Patron to her Worthy Matron in the Eastern Star. After his wife died he slowed down and bit-by-bit simply gave up life, dying of systemic failure seven years later in the cabin in New Hampshire. (bio by: Earl Abbe)
Listed in entry 838 (Daniel Osborn Abbe) of "Abbe-Abbey Genealogy: In Memory of John Abbe and His Descendants" by Cleveland Abbe and Josephine Genung Nichols, 1916
Inscription
(Headstone)
EARL HATHEWAY ABBE
OCT. 23, 1905
MAY 19, 1991
(Plot Stone) ABBE
