Leona Lavonne (Carlson) FREERKSEN ABBAS

ABBAS, CARLSON, PASKIN, FREERKSEN, MOUW, OMVIG, ELIASON, WEILAND, BONJOUR, LIEKWEG

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/1/2009 at 12:21:42

May 26, 2005
Kanawha Reporter, Kanawha, Iowa

Services for Leona Lavonne Abbas, 79, Held on Wednesday

Funeral services were held of Leona Lavonne Abbas, 79, on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at the Kanawha Christian Reformed Church with Pastor Chuck Walton conducting the service. The organist was Marilyn DeKruyff and the soloist was Paula Abbas. She sang “The Old Rugged Cross”. The congregational hymns were “When Peace Like a River” and “Amazing Grace”. The casket bearers were Dave Ondersma, Todd Liekweg, Bryan Freerksen, Tony Carlson, Kenny Wieland, Scott Eliason, and Tom Miedema. The ushers were John Eekhoff and Clarence Seebeck. Interment was at th4e Amsterdam Township Cemetery. The services were under the direction of Ewing Dugger Funeral Chapel of Kanawha.

Leone Lavonne (Carlson) Abbas, 79, of Kanawha died on Sunday, May 22, 2005 at the Wright Medical Center in Clarion following a courageous battle with cancer. Leona, the daughter of Adolph and Ruth (Paskin) Carlson, was born Jan. 3, 1926 on a farm west of Kanawha. She was baptized at St. John’s Lutheran Church in 1926 and later became a member of the Kanawha United Methodist Church. She attended the rural schools and graduated from Kanawha High School in 1943.

On Sept. 9, 1943 Leona married Ion Freerksen at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They had two children – Arlene and Richard. The couple made their home and farmed in the Kanawha area until they retired due to Ion’s failing health. They moved into Kanawha in 1968. Ion died on Jan. 8, 1980. Leona was employed at the Kanawha Farmers Co-op Elevator Company, retiring in May of 1991. Following her retirement, she moved to Michigan to be near her son and his family. On April 16, 1999 Leona married Donald Abbas in Jenison, Michigan and returned to Kanawha to live. She was a faithful member of the Kanawha Christian Reformed Church. She was an avid seamstress and enjoyed baking.

Leona Abbas is survived by her husband Donald Abbas of Kanawha. She leaves two stepchildren – Darl Abbas and his wife Paula of Kanawha and Lois Mouw and her husband of Sioux Center. Leona Abbas leaves eight grandchildren, five step-grandchildren, fourteen great-grandchildren and four step-great-grandchildren. She leaves five sisters – Marjorie Omvig of Kanawha; Maxine Eliason and her husband Cecil of Kanawha; Elaine Weiland of Klemme; Jeanette (Jeanie) Bonjour of Idaho Falls, Idaho; and Janice Liekweg and her husband Rex of Rockwell. She leaves her brother Carroll Carlson and his wife Beverly of Owatonna, Minnesota. She is also survived by a sister-in-law Jeanne Carlson of Kanawha. Leona Abbas was preceded in death by her parents in 1979; her first husband, Ion, in 1980; two brothers – Leon in 1969 and Harlan in 2004; and an infant sister in 1943.