OBITUARY: Esther Vivian Hendrickson Abbott, Mitchell County, Iowa
          
[Mitchell County Press online -- www.mcpress.com -- Posted Jan. 9, 2002]


                           Esther V. Abbott

Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Thursday, Jan. 10, 2002 at First
Lutheran Church, St. Ansgar, for Esther V. Abbott, age 96, of St. Ansgar.
Rev. Robert Porisch will officiate and burial will be in the Paynesville
Cemetery, Paynesville, MN on Friday, Jan. 11, 2002 at 1 pm. She died
Sunday, Jan. 6, 2002 at the Stacyville Community Nursing Home.

Esther Vivian Hendrickson Abbott was born on the family farm west of
St. Ansgar on July 20, 1905. She was the daughter of Henry O. and
Elizabeth Satre Hendrickson. Esther was baptized and confirmed at
First Lutheran Church by Rev. Waldeland. She attended St. Ansgar schools
and graduated in June 1923. She graduated from St. Olaf College, Northfield,
MN with a B.A. degree in June 1927. She continued her education by attending
summer sessions at the University of Minnesota and taught several years at
Minnesota schools. On July 20, 1944 she married Mark M. Abbott of
International Falls, MN. They lived in International Falls and she was
a member of the Zion Lutheran Church there. Following her husband’s death
in 1972, she moved to St. Ansgar and made her home with her brother, Otto.
          
Preceeding her in death were her husband, Mark; her parents; brothers,
Otto, Morris and Roy.

Those that survive her include her nieces,  Mrs. Sam (Jean) Edgar of
St. Louis, MO, Mrs. Tom (Mary) Cedarlund of Grantham, NH; nephews, Don
Hendrickson and wife, Leanna of St. Ansgar, David Hendrickson and wife,
Mary Jo of Keokuk, IA and Bartlett Hendrickson and wife, Frances of
Rockville, MD and several great-nieces and nephews.




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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