Wahkiakum County Eagle-June 9, 1977-Page 6 JOHN W. ABEL Death came to John W. Abel on May 31 after a long illness, leaving his wife Beatrice E., a son John Warren Abel and six grandchildren. Graveside services were held on June 2 at the Lincoln Memorial Park in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Abel were married on October 31, 1917, in Eugene, Ore. They raised two sons, J. Warren and Robert, who died in 1973. Mr. Abel worked for the Railway Express Co. after serving in World War I. He retired in 1959. The Abels owned homes in Portland and on Puget Island. John William Abel Lincoln Memorial Park-Portland, Multnomah, OR 28 March 1894-31 May 1977 (As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society in 2009 from it's original newspaper collection.)