"This is late coming, hopefully someone picks this up. I am Natasha L. Schweitzer-McCabe, I am the oldest Granddaughter of John R. and Kathleen Schweitzer. G. Uncle Nigel looked like my grandmother. God Bless. I miss them both and I know you do too."
In loving memory of
Nigel Moore Abbott
February 25, 1927 - February 6, 2000
MUSCATINE - Nigel Moore Abbott, 72, left his worldly home for a better place, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2000. A Memorial Service will be held 11 a.m. Friday at the Hillcrest Baptist Church. The Rev. Wade Duroe will officiate. A private committal service will be held at the Conesville Cemetery. The body has been cremated. Memorials may be made to the World War II Memorial. Mr. Abbott was born on Feb. 25, 1927, in Conesville, the son of Warren Leslie and Elda May Moore Abbott. He married Rhea Isabelle Chamberlin on Oct. 24, 1947, at the First Methodist Church in Muscatine. He graduated from Nichols High School. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He retired from Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative in Wilton in 1989. For the last six years, he and his wife, Rhea, worked for the Army Corps of Engineers, running the collection booth at Shady Creek Campgrounds. He was a member of the Edward H. Bitzer Post of the American Legion, and was a lifetime member of the Good Sam Camping Club. Survivors include his wife, Rhea; three daughters, Linda Portwood and her husband, Walter, of Oxford, Cathy Hendriks and her husband, Jeffrey, and Lori Harden and her husband, Thomas, all of Muscatine; five grandsons and four granddaughters. He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Frances Brockway and Kathleen Schweitzer.