Rhea Abbott

ABBOTT, CHAMBERLIN

Posted By: June Brewer Welsch (email)
Date: 2/22/2009 at 18:06:06

Source Muscatine Iowa Journal May 15, 2006
RHEA ABBOTT

Memorial Service will be at the New Hope United Methodist Church, 3215 Tipton Road. A committal service will be at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 13, 2006, at the Conesville Cemetery, Conesville, Iowa. Visitation will be at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home.

Rhea Isabelle Abbott, 77, of Muscatine, died Wednesday, May 10, 2006, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.

Reverend Richard Sebeniecher will officiate the service. Honorary Bearers will be her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Tim, Tyler, Mindy and Brian Portwood, Robin Beard, Darcy, Nicolas and Kadynce Hendriks, Amanda and Kristy Clark, Pat Dipple, and Luke Harden. Burial will be in Conesville Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Make a Wish Foundation or the American Cancer Society.

Mrs. Abbott was born on April 16, 1929, in Muscatine County, the daughter of Vernald and Nettie Chasteen Chamberlin. She married Nigel Moore Abbott on October 24, 1947, at the First Methodist Church in Muscatine.

Mrs. Abbott worked at the Wilton Savings Bank until her retirement. Rhea and her husband Nigel ran the collection booth at Shady Creek Campgrounds. She was a life time member of the Good Sam Camping Club.

She is survived by three daughters, Linda Portwood and husband, Walter, of Oxford, Cathy Hendriks and husband, Jeff, of Muscatine and Lorene "Lori" Harden and husband, Tom, of Muscatine; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; three brothers, Melvin Chamberlin of Scottsdale, Arizona, Lynn Chamberlin of Davenport, and Ed Chamberlin of Muscatine; her twin sister, Ruth Midkiff of Muscatine and sister, Lois Hills of Muscatine.

Rhea was preceded in death by her parents, her stepmother, Gladys Chamberlin; and four brothers, Albert, Clarence, Lyal, and Roy.
No relation but lived in the same neighborhood