Alabama, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1805-1967 - 1814-1935
Curtis Leon Abston
GILBERTOWN - Curtis Leon Abston, a former self-employed carpenter, died Wednesday in a Butler, Ala., nursing facility. He was 84.
Abston, a lifelong resident of Gilbertown, was a member of Heritage Church of God.
Survivors include his wife, Onell Adams Abston of Gilbertown; two sons, Curtis Wyman Abston of Spanish Fort and John Henry Abston of Gilbertown; two daughters, Uvonne Abston Hendrix of Gilbertown; two sisters, Annie Mae Abston Clark of Mobile and Jeweline Abston Adams of Gilbertown; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Services are set for 11 a.m. today at Heritage Church of God with burial in Barrytown Cemetery in Barrytown, Ala. Phillips Funeral Home of Gilbertown is in charge.
[Published date: 12/11/1998]
John Burgos
LOGANSPORT, Ind. - John Burgos, a resident of Logansport, died Wednesday at the age of 85.
Burgos was a native of Chios, Greece.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Burgos of Walnut Creek, Calif.; one daughter, Eva Stevenson of Vancouver, Wash.; three sons, Constantine Burgos of Mobile, Michael Burgos of New York, N.Y., and Sam Burgos of Walnut Creek; and one granddaughter.
Visitation will be at at noon Saturday with services at 2 p.m. at Radney Funeral Home on Dauph on Saturday from noon until the 2 p.m. services. Burial will be in Valhalla Memorial Gardens.
[Published date: 12/11/1998]
William H. Brinkman
William H. Brinkman, who was a local farmer for many years, died Thursday in a local hospital. He was 94.
Brinkman was a lifelong resident of Grand Bay.
Survivors include two sisters, Nellie Dupre and Rosalie McGovern, both of Mobile.
Services are set for noon today at Radney Funeral Home on Dauphin Street with burial in Union Baptist Church Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to Grand Bay Nursing Home.
[Published date: 12/12/1998]
Alpha D. Smith
EVERGREEN - Alpha D. Smith, a resident of Evergreen, died Thursday in a Thomasville, Ala., hospital at the age of 88.
Survivors include three sons, Clarence E. Smith and James R. Smith, both of Thomasville, and John W. Smith of Theodore; one daughter, Annie Mae McNeil of Evergreen; 10 grandchildren; and a number of great-grandchildren.
Services are set for 11 a.m. today at Cope Funeral Home in Evergreen with burial in Mount Union Cemetery.
[Published date: 12/12/1998]
Romana Staz
A memorial Mass will be held Friday, Dec. 18, in Mobile for Sister Romana Statz, who died Nov. 29 at the Congregation of St. Agnes's assisted-living facility in Fond Du Lac, Wis., at age 74.
Sister Romana, known as "the Mother Teresa of Mobile, " was a former director of the Service Center of Catholic Social Services in the Port City, where she had served from 1976 to 1989. Under her tenure, the facilities doubled in size, allowing more of the needy to be served.
Survivors include four sisters, Marie Raemisch of Dane, Wis., Angeline Bauer and Catherine Kreul, both of Madison, Wis., and Laura Blakeslee of Waunakee, Wis.; and two brothers, Eugene Statz of Rockford, Ill., and James Statz of Gardner, Mont.
The memorial Mass will be offered at 12:10 p.m. at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
[Published date: 12/12/1998]
Howard T. McAbee
EVERGREEN - Howard Thomas McAbee, an Evergreen resident, died Thursday at a local hospital. He was 75.
He is survived by his wife, Thera McAbee of Evergreen; two sons, Frank McAbee and Johnny McAbee, both of Etna, Wyo.; one daughter, La Fonda McAbee of Red Level, Ala.; and three grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Cope Funeral Home in Evergreen. Burial will be in Pigeon Creek Cemetery in Covington County.
[Published date: 12/13/1998]
Sister Augusta Hamel dead at 64
ERIE, Pa. - Sister Augusta Hamel, O.S.B., former executive director of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania, died Dec. 5 at the Mount St. Benedict Monastery. She was 64.
Born in Mobile, Sister Augusta formerly lived in Pensacola.
She assumed the directorship of the Erie Community Food Bank in 1982. In 1990, the food bank changed its name to Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania and in 1991 won the Excellence Award from the Second Harvest Network for outstanding accomplishments in food banking.
During that time, she served as chair of the Pennsylvania Coalition of Food and Nutrition; member of the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program; member of the advisory committee Commonwealth's Secretary of Agriculture; charter member of the Pennsylvania Association of Regional Food Banks; and board member of Second Harvest National Food Bank Network of Chicago.
In 1992, she was named deputy to the president for external relations of Second Harvest National Food Bank Network in Chicago, the largest hunger relief organization in the United States. Her duties included policy development and coalition building with other hunger organizations.
She was project director for two comprehensive national hunger studies, one in 1994 and "Hunger 1997: The Face 7 Facts."
Sister Augusta entered the Benedictine Sisters of Cullman, Ala., in 1954 and pronounced her monastic vows in 1958. She celebrated her silver jubilee in 1980 and transferred to the Benedictine Sisters of Erie in 1986.
She received her bachelor's degree in history and master's degree in modern European history from St. Louis University. She did additional post-graduate studies at the Birmingham School of Law and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on an R.J. Reynolds Fellowship in economics. She was a member of Phi Alpha Theta, a national honorary society for recognition of scholarship in the field of history.
She spent 25 years ministering in education as an elementary teacher and principal, secondary teacher and administrator, and at St. Bernard College and Cullman College (now Southern Benedictine College).
Survivors include her mother, Catherine Thilborger Hamel of New Orleans; two sisters, Gretchen Hamel Jones of Theodore and Saidee Hamel Clare of Pensacola; and one brother, Earl Hamel of Birmingham.
Memorials may be made to the newly established Sister Augusta Fund in care of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, 6101 East Lake Road, Erie, PA 16511-1599. The fund will be used to help the poor and needy.
[Published date: 12/13/1998]
