Frederick County MD Archives Obituaries.....Grayson Stinespring ABRECHT, October 21, 1957
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The News, Frederick, MD, 22 October 1957

Frederick Police reported on Monday the sudden death by a heart attack of Grayson
Stinespring Abrecht, 58, of 529 Trail Avenue.  Mrs. Cleeta Abrecht, the daughter-
in-law of the deceased, reported the death to police headquarters at 1:55 p.m. on 
Monday.  Mrs. Abrecht said that her father-in-law left home at about 12:00 p.m. 
yesterday and took a short walk, returning home at 1:45 p.m.  He then went down 
into the Abrecht basement and started to work repairing a cane seat in a chair.
 At 1:55 p.m. Mrs. Abrecht heard a noise in the basement and went to see what was 
happening.  She found her father-in-law lying on the floor of the basement and 
immediately called for the United ambulance.  The United crew administered oxygen 
in vain.  Dr. James Thomas as acting medical examiner, was summoned to the Abrecht 
home and pronounced Mr. Abrecht died of a heart attack.  Mr. Abrecht, who has been 
blind for some years, was born in Frederick a son of the late Niles A. and Josie 
Smith Abrecht, both of Frederick County.  He was graduate of the Boys’ High School, 
Calss of 1917 and was an accountant and bookkeeper at the Ox Fibre Brush Company 
for 25 years.  For the last five years he had been engaged in recaning chairs.  Mr. 
Abrecht was a devout member of the Evangelical Lutheran church and Sunday School 
for many years and was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Frederick 
Council 118 Jr. O.U. A. M.  Surviving are his wido, Mrs. Viola F. Pearl Abrecht, 
Frederick; one brother, Robert N. Abrecht, Frederick; three grandchildren and a 
number of nieces and nephews.  The body is at the funeral home 8 East Patrick 
street where friends may call after 7 o’clock tonight. Funeral services will be 
held there Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock.  Interment in Mt. Olivet cemetery. C.
E. Cline and Son, funeral directors.


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