Obit: Mrs. P.K. Abel, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the February 4, 1949 Winnfield News-American


Mrs. P. K. Abel, 73, Dies Tuesday; Rites Held Wednesday

Long Illness Claims Life of Prominent Winnfield Resident


Funeral services were held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday for Mrs. Florence Whatley
Abel, 73, who died in a local hospital at 9:36 p.m. Tuesday following a
lengthy illness.  Rites were conducted in the First Methodist Church by the
Rev.  Fred S. Flurry, pastor, assisted by the Rev. H. H. McBride, First
Baptist Church; the Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, and the Rev. C. M. Robinson, Downtown Assembly of God Church.

Interment was in the Winnfield Cemetery, with the Southern Funeral Home in
charge.  Pallbearers were James Russell, Jr., Dudley Shell, Newton Forrest, E.
J. Buchanan, Harper Terrill, and J. F. Lovell, Jr.

The deceased was the wife of P. K. Abel, deputy clerk of court, deputy
registrar of voters, and clerk of the parish police jury.  She was born in
Union County, Ark., July 29, 1875, and moved to Winnfield in 1901 with her
brother, Pete Whatley, then a conductor of the Arkansas-Southern railway.

She was married to Mr. Abel on November 2?, 1902, and to the union were born
seven children, three of whom survive.  Deceased are Ruby, who died January
11, 1908, and Flossie, who passed away only two days after; P. K. , Jr., who
succumbed in 1914, and Paul, who was killed in an airplane crash in China
September 15, 1943, while serving as a lieutenant with the Army Air Force.

Surviving, besides her husband, are one son, John Dale Abel of St. Joseph,
Mo.; two daughters, Mrs. William S. Walker of Fort Benning, Ga., and Mrs. L.
H. Martin of Amite, La., and four grandchildren, Judy and Beth Abel, Betty
Walker, and Mary Ann Martin.

Shortly after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Abel established their home at 701
East Main  Street and the original house still stands as the family residence. 
Mrs. Abel was a member of the First Methodist Church here for 44 years,
joining in 1904.

(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)