Greer Co. - Obit for Lynn De Juan Abel, 2007

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Lynn De Juan Abel

KERRVILLE - Lynn De Juan Abel, 70, died Sunday, April 15, 2007, in France.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Greer Funeral Home Chapel in Mangum,
Okla. Burial will be in Ladessa Cemetery in Greer County, Okla.

Lynn De Juan Abel, born Dec. 9, 1936, passed away Sunday, April 15, 2007,
while traveling in France. ?

As an accomplished lifelong musician, playing the accordion and many other
instruments, De Juan attended Denver University's Lamont School of Music, and
sang barbershop as a longtime member of the Society for the Preservation and
Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America.

After service in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1957 to 1960, he earned his
college degree in foreign service from Georgetown University. As the founder
of Hexagon Honeycomb Corp., he became a modern-day industrialist, epitomizing
entrepreneurial ambition and independence by developing that company into the
worldwide leader in the production and distribution of structural paper
honeycomb. He was presented the St. Louis Small Business Association
Businessman of the Year Award in 1991.

He passionately loved travel, conversation (with anyone), and his family,
which for him extended to second- and third-degree relatives, with all of whom
he managed to maintain active contact.

De Juan married Carol Ann Coniff in 1960, and they had two sons, Corey Steven
Abel and Andrew Craig Abel.

To all who knew him he was a devoted father, uncle and friend.?

May he rest in peace. He was preceded in death by his parents, Oliver J. and
Willie Abel of Clarendon, Texas; an older brother, Billy Dan Abel; and a
sister, Donna.

Survivors include his former wife, Carol Abel of Scottsdale, Ariz.; two sons,
Corey Abel and wife Jenni Jordan Abel and their children, Audrey Lyn and
Oliver Emmett of Denver and Andrew "Andy" Abel of Hollywood, Fla.; a brother,
Philip C. Abel of Fort Worth; and his longtime companion, Krisztina Toth, and
her son, Daniel Antmann; and a host of cousins, nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home in Mangum.