Announcement: Mrs. Betty Carter Abel, loving wife of Dewey Edson Abel Passed away early in the morning on the 14th of July. Betty was the daughter of Thomas Volney Carter and Helen Blevins Carter. She is survived from the Carter/Abel union by daughters Jane E. Abel of Miami FL, Helen A. Samples of Tavernier FL, a son, Dewey Carter Abel of Miami FL. and a grandson, Shawn Edward Samples of Seattle WA. Services will be held at 11 AM  July 25th in Seymour, Indiana. Contact Voss Funeral Home for further details.

To my favorite Mother in Law - I love you and will miss you very much.  I hope you have found the peace that you always wanted. I'm sorry I did not have the time to do a separate page for you. You deserve it and so much more. Thank you for being you. I will never forget.

In Loving Memory of

Dewey E. Abel

22 March, 1925 - April 10, 1998

Thou art an eagle, thou doest belong to the sky and not to the earth, stretch forth thy wings and fly.

-- Paul H Dunn

First Career - United States Air Force. (Major - Retired 1968)

Second Career - Florida Power and Light (Retired 1989)

Third Career - Lewis Electric (Retired April 10, 1998)

Dewey Edson Abel passed away the morning of April 10th, 1998. He left in this world his wife of 53 Years, Betty Carter Abel of Miami, a brother, Floyd of Seymour Indiana, a sister, Jean of Seymour, a son, Dewey Carter Abel of Miami, and two daughters, Jane Ellen Abel of Miami and Helen Abel Samples of Tavernier, and a grandson, Shawn Edward Samples of Seattle, Washington.

He will be missed by all that knew and loved him.

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Obituaries (Still Working, but page is up)

For the poem "High Flight" - Click here.

One of the Planes that Dewey flew: Fairchild C-119J (Flying Boxcar)

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The Funeral will be in Seymour, Indiana on the 25th of April at 11:00 A.M. It will be a Full Military Honors Funeral with the United States Air Force Honor Guard in attendance.

Any updates will be posted on these pages. Thank you.

The Funeral went as planned. Thanks to all of you that attended.

April 12, 1998 - A special Thanks to the United States Air Force News Service for the use of some of their clip art and to the United States Air Force Museum for the C-119J page.