Lois Jean (Michelson) ABBAS

ABBAS, MICHELSON, OMVIG, BROWN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/15/2008 at 12:50:11

Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa
June 2000

KANAWHA - Lois Jean Abbas, 61, passed away Friday (June 16, 2000) at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 P.M. Monday at Kanawha Lutheran Church with Pastor G. David Daley officiating. Burial will take place in Amsterdam Township Cemetery in Kanawha. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 P.M. today at Ewing Dugger Funeral Home in Kanawha and will resume one hour prior to services at the church Monday.

Lois, the daughter of Ernest and Ovedia (Omvig) Michelson, was born Feb. 7, 1939, in Kanawha. She attended school in Kanawha, graduating from Kanawha High School in 1957. Lois was united in marriage with David Abbas at the Kanawha Lutheran Church on July 20, 1962. The couple enjoyed 37 years of marriage. Lois lived in Kanawha her entire life. She has been employed as the Kanawha city clerk for the past 26 years. Lois was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She enjoyed her grandchildren, fishing, Harley Davidsons and car races. Lois loved people and enjoyed socializing with her many nice friends. She also enjoyed television time with her black cat Crowsy. Lois was a member of the Kanawha Lutheran Church, Lutheran Women and the Church Circle.

She is survived by her husband, David, of Kanawha; one daughter, Tracy, of Van Meter; one son, Dan, and his wife, Monica, of Kanawha; three grandchildren, Katie Brown, Jacob Abbas and Briana Abbas; her parents, Ernest and Ovedia Michelson of Kanawha; mother-in-law, Alice Abbas of Kanawha; and two brothers-in-law, Tom Abbas and his wife, Becky, of Waterloo, and Robert Abbas of Cedar Falls. Lois was preceded in death by her father-in-law, George Abbas.