This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Abbott, Luse, Schultz, Burkhardt, Jensen, Deming, Konrady, Morgan, Hawblitzel Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3FC.2ACI/3753 Message Board Post: Theodore Schwan Abbott, 83 Friday, October 01, 2004 Theodore Schwan Abbott, 83, a former resident of Hudson, died Friday, Sept. 17, in East Palm Beach, Fla. He was born in St. Paul, Sept. 22, 1920, the son of Theodore S. Sr. and Dorothy Abbott, and attended schools in St. Paul. During World War II, from 1940 to 1946, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was a tank commander in the Pacific Theater of War, participating in the battles of the Islands of Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa. He also participated in the occupation of Kyushu, Japan, and from there observed the effects of the dropping of the atom bomb on the city of Nagasaki. There he was awarded the Purple Heart medal. On May 18, 1946, he was married in Laguna Beach, Calif., to Maxine Dorothy (Schultz) Luse of Hudson, the daughter of Alfred R. and Helene (Burkhardt) Schultz, and the granddaughter of Christian Burkhardt, the founder of the village of Burkhardt. For two years, 1947 to 1949, he and Vernon Jensen owned and operated a sports business, St. Croix Sport and Marine, at 113 Walnut St., but after two years the business closed. He received a bachelor of science degree in 1951 from River Falls State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin-River Falls) and did additional studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He taught junior high school in Hudson, and Prescott, Ariz., and was a guidance counselor at several middle schools in Madison. Later he was a substitute teacher at Minong Northwood High School. Surviving are three children, Judge Steven L. (Jean) Abbott of Sparta, Barbara (Richard) Deming of Brockport, N.Y., and Theodore S. Abbott III (special friend Connie Konrady) of Lake Worth, Fla.; five grandchildren, Barry (Nichole) Abbott of New London, Richard (Nancy) Deming of New Haven, Conn., Kathryn (Rob) Morgan of Andover, Mass., Jennifer (Ryan) Hawblitzel of Tampa, Fla., and Theodore (Julie) Abbott IV of Clearwater, Fla.; and one great-granddaughter, Jacqueline Deming of Andover, Mass. Preceding him in death were his parents; and his wife, Maxine, on Jan. 24, 1994. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Brown Funeral Home in Solon Springs. Burial will be in the Gordon Memorial Cemetery in Gordon. The Brown Funeral Home in Solon Springs was in charge of arrangements. © 2004 Hudson Star-Observer - Reposted by permission http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=11834&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=54&S=1