Frances Abbott's obituary, Grant Township, Clare County, Michigan Copyright © 1999 by Alice Eaton. This copy contributed for use in the MIGenWeb Archives. MIGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed MIGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the MIGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. _____________________________________________________________________ 1941: Mrs. George Abbott, Jr., mother or five small children passed away at her Grant Township home last Friday. Frances Grace Gaddy, the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Charles Gaddy, was born at Jasper Michigan June 23, 1902, and passed away in Grant Township, Clare County, November 7, 1941, at the age of thirty-nine years, four months and fourteen days. She leaves to mourn their loss, her husband, George Abbott, Jr., one daughter by a former marriage, Mrs. Fay Barrager (Uvah) of Flint; five children at home, Leroy, Norma, Ivaleta, Leland, Ronald, and her father Charles Gaddy; two sisters, Mrs. Herbert Six of Jasper, Michigan and Mrs. Melvin Ritter of Pennsylvania; four step-sisters and a host of other relatives and friends. She was a kind and loving wife and mother and will be missed by all who knew her. Funeral Services were held from the Thurston Funeral Home at 2:00 o'clock Monday afternoon, with Rev. Charles Kleinhardt officiating, and interment in Vernon Township Cemetery.