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IN LOVING MEMORY OF Maxine Harriet Abbe
Maxine Harriet
Abbe
January 30, 1909 – April 22, 2006
Maxine Harriet Abbe's Obituary
TOLEDO- Maxine Harriet Abbe, age 97, of Toledo, died on Saturday, April 22, 2006 in Grandview Acres in Toledo following a short illness. Memorial Services will be held on Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 11:00 AM at the United Methodist Church in Garwin with burial preceding the service at Rose Hill Cemetery, north of Toledo at 10:00 AM. Visitation will be from 4-8 PM Tuesday evening and after 9:00-9:30 AM Wednesday morning at the Kruse-Phillips Funeral Home in Tama.
Maxine was born on January 30, 1909. Her parents, Edgar and Myrtle Billick Murray moved to Toledo when she was a child and she graduated from Toledo High School.
She married Ernest A. Abbe on September 26, 1926. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. DeWitt Clinton in the Tama Methodist parsonage. They farmed north of Toledo for four years, then south of Montour for fifteen years. They bought a farm east of Garwin in 1944, moving there in 1946. They resided there for thirty-two years before retiring to Toledo in 1978. Ernie died May 14, 1983. Maxine stayed in her home on Green Street until July of 2000. She then moved to Grandview Acres Nursing Home where she especially enjoyed playing Bingo and Skipbo. She was also an avid reader.
Maxine was a member of the Garwin United Methodist Church for many years prior to joining the Christ United Methodist Church in Toledo. As a retired farm wife, she enjoyed being active in the Toledo Garden Club, the Mother's Home Circle, the American Legion Auxiliary, and the Rose Hill Cemetery organization.
She is preceded in death by her husband; two sons, Merle G. and Raymond A. Abbe; two grandsons, Mark Abbe and Erik Aperans; one brother, Jim Murray; one daughter-in-law, Sarah Abbe.
Survivors include one son, Jerry (Janet) Abbe of Garwin; two daughters, Eunice (Joe) Menary of Williamsburg and Janice (Agris) Aperans of Waterloo; seventeen grandchildren; twenty-eight great-grandchildren; four step-great grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren; and two daughters-in-law, Ila Jean Abbe Bratton of Toledo and Mary Abbe of Marshalltown.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Iowa River Hospice.
Maxine was born on January 30, 1909. Her parents, Edgar and Myrtle Billick Murray moved to Toledo when she was a child and she graduated from Toledo High School.
She married Ernest A. Abbe on September 26, 1926. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. DeWitt Clinton in the Tama Methodist parsonage. They farmed north of Toledo for four years, then south of Montour for fifteen years. They bought a farm east of Garwin in 1944, moving there in 1946. They resided there for thirty-two years before retiring to Toledo in 1978. Ernie died May 14, 1983. Maxine stayed in her home on Green Street until July of 2000. She then moved to Grandview Acres Nursing Home where she especially enjoyed playing Bingo and Skipbo. She was also an avid reader.
Maxine was a member of the Garwin United Methodist Church for many years prior to joining the Christ United Methodist Church in Toledo. As a retired farm wife, she enjoyed being active in the Toledo Garden Club, the Mother's Home Circle, the American Legion Auxiliary, and the Rose Hill Cemetery organization.
She is preceded in death by her husband; two sons, Merle G. and Raymond A. Abbe; two grandsons, Mark Abbe and Erik Aperans; one brother, Jim Murray; one daughter-in-law, Sarah Abbe.
Survivors include one son, Jerry (Janet) Abbe of Garwin; two daughters, Eunice (Joe) Menary of Williamsburg and Janice (Agris) Aperans of Waterloo; seventeen grandchildren; twenty-eight great-grandchildren; four step-great grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren; and two daughters-in-law, Ila Jean Abbe Bratton of Toledo and Mary Abbe of Marshalltown.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Iowa River Hospice.
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