A local memorial service will be Monday for former Soquel resident Eleanor Gurney Abbott, who died May 15 in Ellicott City, Md. She was 91.
Born in London, she was the daughter of David Sutherland Michell and Eleanor Maud Gurney. Her family later moved to Canada.
She was the wife of the late John Dunbar Abbott, a veteran of the Canadian army during World War I. Mrs. Abbott lived in Soquel for about 30 years after moving to the area in the 1950s. She worked as a secretary at Mills College in Oakland. She and her husband also operated an insurance business in Hayward and Soquel. Mrs. Abbott was a member of St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Capitola.
She is survived by two sons, Richard D. Abbott of Washington, D.C., and Donald W. Abbott of Ellicott City, Md.; two brothers, the Rev. David C.H. Michell of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and John S. Michell of Salmon Arm, British Columbia; six granddaughters; and one great granddaughter.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church, 216 Oakland Ave., Capitola. Her ashes will be interred at Oakwood Memorial Park in Santa Cruz.
Published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on May 26, 1993
Born in London, she was the daughter of David Sutherland Michell and Eleanor Maud Gurney. Her family later moved to Canada.
She was the wife of the late John Dunbar Abbott, a veteran of the Canadian army during World War I. Mrs. Abbott lived in Soquel for about 30 years after moving to the area in the 1950s. She worked as a secretary at Mills College in Oakland. She and her husband also operated an insurance business in Hayward and Soquel. Mrs. Abbott was a member of St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Capitola.
She is survived by two sons, Richard D. Abbott of Washington, D.C., and Donald W. Abbott of Ellicott City, Md.; two brothers, the Rev. David C.H. Michell of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and John S. Michell of Salmon Arm, British Columbia; six granddaughters; and one great granddaughter.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church, 216 Oakland Ave., Capitola. Her ashes will be interred at Oakwood Memorial Park in Santa Cruz.
Published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on May 26, 1993
A local memorial service will be Monday for former Soquel resident Eleanor Gurney Abbott, who died May 15 in Ellicott City, Md. She was 91.
Born in London, she was the daughter of David Sutherland Michell and Eleanor Maud Gurney. Her family later moved to Canada.
She was the wife of the late John Dunbar Abbott, a veteran of the Canadian army during World War I. Mrs. Abbott lived in Soquel for about 30 years after moving to the area in the 1950s. She worked as a secretary at Mills College in Oakland. She and her husband also operated an insurance business in Hayward and Soquel. Mrs. Abbott was a member of St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Capitola.
She is survived by two sons, Richard D. Abbott of Washington, D.C., and Donald W. Abbott of Ellicott City, Md.; two brothers, the Rev. David C.H. Michell of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and John S. Michell of Salmon Arm, British Columbia; six granddaughters; and one great granddaughter.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church, 216 Oakland Ave., Capitola. Her ashes will be interred at Oakwood Memorial Park in Santa Cruz.
Published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on May 26, 1993
Born in London, she was the daughter of David Sutherland Michell and Eleanor Maud Gurney. Her family later moved to Canada.
She was the wife of the late John Dunbar Abbott, a veteran of the Canadian army during World War I. Mrs. Abbott lived in Soquel for about 30 years after moving to the area in the 1950s. She worked as a secretary at Mills College in Oakland. She and her husband also operated an insurance business in Hayward and Soquel. Mrs. Abbott was a member of St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Capitola.
She is survived by two sons, Richard D. Abbott of Washington, D.C., and Donald W. Abbott of Ellicott City, Md.; two brothers, the Rev. David C.H. Michell of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and John S. Michell of Salmon Arm, British Columbia; six granddaughters; and one great granddaughter.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church, 216 Oakland Ave., Capitola. Her ashes will be interred at Oakwood Memorial Park in Santa Cruz.
Published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on May 26, 1993
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