ABEL, Raymond B. - 2000

ABEL, RENO, MCCUE, DOLEZAL, MCCOLLEY, BAUDER, ROBERTS

Posted By: Colette Miles (email)
Date: 10/7/2014 at 14:02:39

(The Chronicle - September 7, 2000 - Cherokee, Iowa)

Raymond B. Abel

Raymond B. Abel, 81, Sioux
Falls, S.D. died Monday, Sept.
4, 2000, in the Sioux Falls Sioux
Valley Hospital's Hospice room,
following a lingering illness
with cancer. Funeral services
will be held Saturday, Sept. 9,
at 10:30 a.m. at the Boothby
Funeral Home, Cherokee. Rev.
Ray Kruger will officiate and
burial will be in the Oak Hill
Cemetery, Cherokee. There will
be a family prayer service at
10:15 a.m. in the funeral home
on Saturday. Visitation will be
today from 3 to 8 p.m. and on
Friday from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m.
with the family present Friday
evening from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at
the Boothby Funeral Home.
He was born on March 16,
1919, at Bridgewater,S.D., to
Willard and Bernice Rohde
Abel. His family moved to Artesian,
S.D., for a few years and
then to Presho, S.D., where he
graduated from high school in
1938. He had been a resident
of Sioux Falls, S.D., since June
1979, and prior to this had
live.d in Garden Grove, Calif.,
for 16 years and in Bozeman,
Mont., for eight years. He had
worked for GTE for two years
and then for the Rod Frazier
liquor & Deli Store chain as a
manager in southern California
for several years, retiring
in 1974.
He enjoyed golfing, playing
cards, traveling, gardening and
raising vegetables and then
sharing them with family and
friends.
He is survived by: his wife,
Shirley; a nephew Dennis Abel,
Berthoud, Colo.; four nieces,
Donna Reno, Kennewick,
Wash.; Diane McCue,
Clackamas, Ore.; Mary
Dolezal, Sedalia, Colo.; and
Connie McColley, Kirkland,
Wash.
He was preceded in death
by: his parents; two brothers,
Harold and Wilmer Abel; and
two sisters, Mildred Bauder
and Lois Roberts.