Oconee County ScArchives Obituaries.....Abbott, Frances Dingle January 4, 2003 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Susan Brock-Booker sbrockbooker@aol.com February 28, 2014, 5:05 pm The Greenville News. Jan. 6, 2003 Frances Dingle Abbott, age 97, and formerly of 202 Westminster Hwy., died Saturday, Jan. 4, 2003, at the Oconee Memorial Hospital. Born in Summerton, S.C., on Dec. 26, 1905, Mrs. Abbott was a retired school teacher, having taught at the Walhalla and Westminster schools. She was a graduate from Winthrop College and was a member of the Westminster Baptist Church, where for many years served as church organist. Mrs. Abbott served on the Oconee County Library Board and the As You Like It Club and the Westminster Garden Club. She was co-founder with her husband, Z.T. Abbott, the Westminster Depository in 1935, the Abbott Insurance Agency in 1935, the Bank of Westminster in 1945, and following Mr. Z.T. Abbott's death she was the chairman of the board of directors at the Bank of Westminster. Survivors include sons, Marshall Treadwell Abbott and wife, Dot of Westminster, Zettner Thomas Abbott Jr. and wife Betty of Westminster; seven grandchildren, Charlotte A. Sheriff and husband Mike, Frances A. Human and husband Bill, Marshall T. Abbott Jr. and wife Cindy, William R. Abbott, Elizabeth A. French and husband Scott, Rebecca A. Kelley and husband Raymond and Zettner T. Abbott III and Fianc Diane; six great-grandchildren, Marlee Ann Sheriff, Alex Abbott, Alexandra M. French, Jonathan A. Kelley, Kathleen A. Kelley, and McKenzie A. French. Mrs. Abbott was preceded in death by her husband, Zettner Thomas Abbott Sr. and parents, Claude Treadwell and Stella B. Dingle. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. today, Jan. 6, 2003, from the Chapel of Sandifer Funeral Home with Dr. Randy Keasler, The Rev. Wilton Maxwell officiating. Entombment will follow in the Oconee Memorial Park Tower Mausoleum. The body is at the Sandifer Funeral Home, Westminster, where the family will receive friends from 2 to 3 p.m. prior to the service today, Jan. 6, 2003. The family requests that memorials be directed to the Tribble Center, 116 South Cove Road, Seneca, SC 29672 or to the American Cancer Society , 154 Milestone Way, Greenville, SC 29615. The family is at their respective homes. The Sandifer Funeral Home, Westminster, is in charge of arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sc/oconee/obits/a/abbott325gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/scfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb