Addeline Amelia Abbott

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Services were held June 17, 1980 for Addeline Amelia Abbott age 96, in the Reydon Community Building with Rev. Clovis Rhoades and Rev. Johnny Freeman officiating.

Mrs. Abbott was born February 24, 1884 at Medicine Lodge, Kansas and passed away June 14, 1980 in the Cheyenne Convalescent Home, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.

She moved with her parents at the age of 9 to Colony, Oklahoma then moved to Roger Mills County in 1900.

On November 10, 1902, Mrs. Abbott married Harry Rivers Abbott at Cheyenne, Oklahoma. They then moved to Elk City in 1929, next to Reydon in 1951. There they helped organize the Reydon Church of Christ.

After Mr. Abbott's death, Mrs. Abbott moved to Cheyenne in 1974.

Mrs. Abbott was preceded in death by her parents and an infant daughter, husband, one grandchild, six brothers and two sisters.

Survivors are one daughter, Mrs. Orville {Dora} Robison of Reydon; two sons, Frank of Kingman, Arizona and Harry K. of Yukon, Oklahoma; eight grandchildren, nineteen great grandchildren and ten great great grandchildren.

Interment was in the Cheyenne Cemetery under the direction of Rose Chapel of Cheyenne.