"Washington County VT - 1997
Abbott, William R., Jr., 74, formerly of Calais, died Nov. 30, 1997. Born on October 6, 1923 in East Calais, VT, he was the son of William and Helen (Gray) Abbott. He attended schools in East Calais and Cabot. He served in the Army with the 101st Airborne Division during WWII. In 1950, he married Patricia H. (Smith) Abbott. He worked at Cone Blanchard Machine Tool Co., retiring in 1986. Survivors include his wife; a son, Michael; three daughters, Debra Kelly, Donna Dougher and Kathleen O'Neill; two brothers, Knight Abbott & C. Robert Abbott ; a sister, Nancy Streeter; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by sisters Laura Wood and Zenith Winkler, and brother, Mark Abbott."
William Raymond Abbott Jr. -a farm boy from Cabot, Vermont- landed on Utah Beach aboard the landing craft LST 491 at 10:30pm, Normandy time, on D-Day. Fighting with "E" Company of the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment (GIR) (a unit within the famed 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles"), he survived the Battle of Carentan shortly after D-Day.
Throughout the war he participated in 10 glider flights and all of the major campaigns, including Operation Market Garden and the Battle of Bastogne during the cold winter of 1944 in which he was blown out of a foxhole while putting out the cigarette of some young soldier who didn't know better about lighting up at night and revealing their position to the Germans.
Assigned as a light mortar infantryman and expert gunner, he finished out the war as a guard at Berchtesgaden, where the 101st captured Hitler's "Eagle's Nest". Along with others from the 327th, he was assigned to protect the much of the art that the Nazis had stolen, while they were on display for visiting dignitaries.
After the war, William returned home and is remembered to have wanted nothing more than his mother to make a supper of salt pork and milk gravy with corn bread.
William married Patricia Helen Smith in 1950 and together they had 4 children. William lived out his years with several grandchildren and died in 1997 at the age of 74.
Abbott, William R., Jr., 74, formerly of Calais, died Nov. 30, 1997. Born on October 6, 1923 in East Calais, VT, he was the son of William and Helen (Gray) Abbott. He attended schools in East Calais and Cabot. He served in the Army with the 101st Airborne Division during WWII. In 1950, he married Patricia H. (Smith) Abbott. He worked at Cone Blanchard Machine Tool Co., retiring in 1986. Survivors include his wife; a son, Michael; three daughters, Debra Kelly, Donna Dougher and Kathleen O'Neill; two brothers, Knight Abbott & C. Robert Abbott ; a sister, Nancy Streeter; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by sisters Laura Wood and Zenith Winkler, and brother, Mark Abbott."
William Raymond Abbott Jr. -a farm boy from Cabot, Vermont- landed on Utah Beach aboard the landing craft LST 491 at 10:30pm, Normandy time, on D-Day. Fighting with "E" Company of the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment (GIR) (a unit within the famed 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles"), he survived the Battle of Carentan shortly after D-Day.
Throughout the war he participated in 10 glider flights and all of the major campaigns, including Operation Market Garden and the Battle of Bastogne during the cold winter of 1944 in which he was blown out of a foxhole while putting out the cigarette of some young soldier who didn't know better about lighting up at night and revealing their position to the Germans.
Assigned as a light mortar infantryman and expert gunner, he finished out the war as a guard at Berchtesgaden, where the 101st captured Hitler's "Eagle's Nest". Along with others from the 327th, he was assigned to protect the much of the art that the Nazis had stolen, while they were on display for visiting dignitaries.
After the war, William returned home and is remembered to have wanted nothing more than his mother to make a supper of salt pork and milk gravy with corn bread.
William married Patricia Helen Smith in 1950 and together they had 4 children. William lived out his years with several grandchildren and died in 1997 at the age of 74.
"Washington County VT - 1997
Abbott, William R., Jr., 74, formerly of Calais, died Nov. 30, 1997. Born on October 6, 1923 in East Calais, VT, he was the son of William and Helen (Gray) Abbott. He attended schools in East Calais and Cabot. He served in the Army with the 101st Airborne Division during WWII. In 1950, he married Patricia H. (Smith) Abbott. He worked at Cone Blanchard Machine Tool Co., retiring in 1986. Survivors include his wife; a son, Michael; three daughters, Debra Kelly, Donna Dougher and Kathleen O'Neill; two brothers, Knight Abbott & C. Robert Abbott ; a sister, Nancy Streeter; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by sisters Laura Wood and Zenith Winkler, and brother, Mark Abbott."
William Raymond Abbott Jr. -a farm boy from Cabot, Vermont- landed on Utah Beach aboard the landing craft LST 491 at 10:30pm, Normandy time, on D-Day. Fighting with "E" Company of the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment (GIR) (a unit within the famed 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles"), he survived the Battle of Carentan shortly after D-Day.
Throughout the war he participated in 10 glider flights and all of the major campaigns, including Operation Market Garden and the Battle of Bastogne during the cold winter of 1944 in which he was blown out of a foxhole while putting out the cigarette of some young soldier who didn't know better about lighting up at night and revealing their position to the Germans.
Assigned as a light mortar infantryman and expert gunner, he finished out the war as a guard at Berchtesgaden, where the 101st captured Hitler's "Eagle's Nest". Along with others from the 327th, he was assigned to protect the much of the art that the Nazis had stolen, while they were on display for visiting dignitaries.
After the war, William returned home and is remembered to have wanted nothing more than his mother to make a supper of salt pork and milk gravy with corn bread.
William married Patricia Helen Smith in 1950 and together they had 4 children. William lived out his years with several grandchildren and died in 1997 at the age of 74.
Abbott, William R., Jr., 74, formerly of Calais, died Nov. 30, 1997. Born on October 6, 1923 in East Calais, VT, he was the son of William and Helen (Gray) Abbott. He attended schools in East Calais and Cabot. He served in the Army with the 101st Airborne Division during WWII. In 1950, he married Patricia H. (Smith) Abbott. He worked at Cone Blanchard Machine Tool Co., retiring in 1986. Survivors include his wife; a son, Michael; three daughters, Debra Kelly, Donna Dougher and Kathleen O'Neill; two brothers, Knight Abbott & C. Robert Abbott ; a sister, Nancy Streeter; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by sisters Laura Wood and Zenith Winkler, and brother, Mark Abbott."
William Raymond Abbott Jr. -a farm boy from Cabot, Vermont- landed on Utah Beach aboard the landing craft LST 491 at 10:30pm, Normandy time, on D-Day. Fighting with "E" Company of the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment (GIR) (a unit within the famed 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles"), he survived the Battle of Carentan shortly after D-Day.
Throughout the war he participated in 10 glider flights and all of the major campaigns, including Operation Market Garden and the Battle of Bastogne during the cold winter of 1944 in which he was blown out of a foxhole while putting out the cigarette of some young soldier who didn't know better about lighting up at night and revealing their position to the Germans.
Assigned as a light mortar infantryman and expert gunner, he finished out the war as a guard at Berchtesgaden, where the 101st captured Hitler's "Eagle's Nest". Along with others from the 327th, he was assigned to protect the much of the art that the Nazis had stolen, while they were on display for visiting dignitaries.
After the war, William returned home and is remembered to have wanted nothing more than his mother to make a supper of salt pork and milk gravy with corn bread.
William married Patricia Helen Smith in 1950 and together they had 4 children. William lived out his years with several grandchildren and died in 1997 at the age of 74.
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