Funeral Service: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 2:00 pm at the Chapel of Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Miles City
Interment: Will follow at the Custer County Cemetery in Miles City, MT
Charles Edgar Abbott, age 72, of Sturgis, SD, and formerly of Powderville, MT, passed away at the Foothills Assisted Living Home in Sturgis on December 25, 2003.
Charles was born on September 11, 1931 in Miles City, MT, to Arthur Clifford and Nellie Olive (Berg) Abbott. He attended elementary school at the Cross S country school and then Custer County High School in Miles City.
Charles lived and worked on the family ranch, homesteaded by his father and uncle, southeast of Miles City. Charles met Millie Lucille Gorman at Woolworths in Miles City. They were united in marriage on October 31, 1953 in Miles City, Montana. They ranched in the Coalwood and Olive area on the family ranch until 1976 when they moved to the Kalispell area where they worked with Glen and Zenina Davis. They later moved to California working for Millies brother, Allen in the truck lubrication business until returning to Miles City where Charles worked on the Russell Mann Ranch and the T.N. Ranch. In 1985, they moved to Greenough, MT where Charles was manager of the Benjamin-Moore Lindberg Ranch for the Greenough Cattle Co. In July 1992, Charles was stricken by a brain aneurysm and multiple strokes. Charles struggled to learn and to master talking, walking, and all lifes simple skills. Around Thanksgiving of 1992, Charles and Millie returned to Miles City. They spent their time visiting with their long-time friends from the Powderville, Olive, Coalwood, Broadus, and Miles City areas. In August of 1996, they moved to Sturgis, South Dakota. Charles was a long time member of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Broadus, MT and more recently a member Grace Lutheran Church in Sturgis, SD. Charles enjoyed ranching, hunting, music, and his family.
Survivors include daughter Linda Black (Abbott) and her husband Dee; son Rick Abbott and his wife Dyon "Dee"; sister Mrs. June Minow (Abbott) and her husband Pete of Beaver Creek north of Ashland; sister-in-law Mrs. Merle Abbott (Klapmeier) of Livingston; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother Clifford, and his wife, Millie.
Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home of Miles City has been entrusted with the arrangements.
Should friends desire a memorial may be made to the Range Riders Museum; West of Miles City, Miles City, MT 59301, the Our Savior Lutheran Church; 117 West Morris, Broadus, MT 59317 or to the charity of one's choice.
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