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Doris Burrell Abels
(January 20, 1926 - October 4, 2011)
Graveside funeral services for Doris Burrell Abels of Carrollton will be at
11:00 a.m. on Friday, October 7, at the Evergreen Cemetery in North
Carrollton with burial following. Rev. Diane Lemmon will officiate the
service.
A visitation will be held on Friday, from 9:30 until 10:30 a.m., at Lee
Funeral Home in Winona.
Mrs. Abels died at her residence, with her children by her side, on
Tuesday, October 4, 2011. She was 85 years old.
Mrs. Abels was born in Sallis, Mississippi, to Oliver C. and Ada Lula
Burrell on January 20, 1926. She was married to her high school
sweetheart, Carlton Abels, also of Sallis, for 60 years. She graduated
from Holmes Jr. College and Draughns Business School. She worked
for many years as a secretary, teacher, and an administrative assistant for
her husband. Moving many times in their lifetime she made many friends
in residences in Durant, MS, Van Dale, Wynn, Rosebud and Knobel, AR,
Flora, Belmont, Madison, Marks, Ethel, Tchula and Carrollton, MS.
Mrs. Abels will always be remembered for her unsinkable spirit and joie
de vivre. A devoted and loving wife and mother, her talents and qualities
were indescribable, but it is universally agreed that her spirit was the glue
that held the family together. From a large completely musical family,
she sang and played in her family stringband in the late 1930‘s around
Attala and Holmes County. Doris taught her family how to sing 3-4 part
harmony and passed on her love of music family and life. She was a
member of Carrollton United Methodist Church and a former member of
the Order of the Eastern Star.
In addition to her parents and husband, Mrs. Abels was preceded in
death by a grandson, Sterling Paine Jones; and a great-granddaughter,
Natalie Lynn Jones.
Survivors include three daughters, Mary Lou Lane and her husband, Don,
of Flora, Glenda Jones and her husband, Sterling of Carrollton, and Carla
Shackelford and her husband, Pate, of North Carrollton; one son, Cecil
Carlton Abels II; two sisters, Bess Stauch and Clydie Dickerson; one
brother, Trent Burrell; twelve grandchildren; eighteen great-grandchildren;
and many nieces and nephews.
Her grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Memorial contributions may be made to Carrollton United Methodist
Church, Carrollton, MS 38917; or to Natalie's Memorial Playground, c/o
Peoples Bank and Trust Company, P. O. Box 397, North Carrollton, MS
38947.
(January 20, 1926 - October 4, 2011)
Graveside funeral services for Doris Burrell Abels of Carrollton will be at
11:00 a.m. on Friday, October 7, at the Evergreen Cemetery in North
Carrollton with burial following. Rev. Diane Lemmon will officiate the
service.
A visitation will be held on Friday, from 9:30 until 10:30 a.m., at Lee
Funeral Home in Winona.
Mrs. Abels died at her residence, with her children by her side, on
Tuesday, October 4, 2011. She was 85 years old.
Mrs. Abels was born in Sallis, Mississippi, to Oliver C. and Ada Lula
Burrell on January 20, 1926. She was married to her high school
sweetheart, Carlton Abels, also of Sallis, for 60 years. She graduated
from Holmes Jr. College and Draughns Business School. She worked
for many years as a secretary, teacher, and an administrative assistant for
her husband. Moving many times in their lifetime she made many friends
in residences in Durant, MS, Van Dale, Wynn, Rosebud and Knobel, AR,
Flora, Belmont, Madison, Marks, Ethel, Tchula and Carrollton, MS.
Mrs. Abels will always be remembered for her unsinkable spirit and joie
de vivre. A devoted and loving wife and mother, her talents and qualities
were indescribable, but it is universally agreed that her spirit was the glue
that held the family together. From a large completely musical family,
she sang and played in her family stringband in the late 1930‘s around
Attala and Holmes County. Doris taught her family how to sing 3-4 part
harmony and passed on her love of music family and life. She was a
member of Carrollton United Methodist Church and a former member of
the Order of the Eastern Star.
In addition to her parents and husband, Mrs. Abels was preceded in
death by a grandson, Sterling Paine Jones; and a great-granddaughter,
Natalie Lynn Jones.
Survivors include three daughters, Mary Lou Lane and her husband, Don,
of Flora, Glenda Jones and her husband, Sterling of Carrollton, and Carla
Shackelford and her husband, Pate, of North Carrollton; one son, Cecil
Carlton Abels II; two sisters, Bess Stauch and Clydie Dickerson; one
brother, Trent Burrell; twelve grandchildren; eighteen great-grandchildren;
and many nieces and nephews.
Her grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Memorial contributions may be made to Carrollton United Methodist
Church, Carrollton, MS 38917; or to Natalie's Memorial Playground, c/o
Peoples Bank and Trust Company, P. O. Box 397, North Carrollton, MS
38947.