Born in Holt, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Daughter of William Augustus Keene
and Mary H (Powell) Keene
Sister of
Mary Bell (Keene) Merrymon, Hugh Augustus Keene, Lee Powell Keene, Wilkie Alonzo Keene and William Ray Keene
Wife of
Joseph Melton Johnson
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of
Howell Abston
— married
1990 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Mother of
Frances Louise (Johnson) Tramell
Died
at age 101
in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
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Biography
Lois (Keene) Abston was a centenarian, living to age 101.
This profile is part of the Johnson Name Study.
Lois (Keene) Abston was born in Appalachia, in Alabama.
Lois R. Keene was born on July 6,1905 in Holt, Alabama, daughter of William Augustus Keene and Mary H Powell.[1]
She married Howell Abston on October 30, 1990 in Montgomery, Alabama. [2]
She died, at the age of 101, on July 7, 2006 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.[1] She is buried at the Tuscaloosa Memorial Park, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.[3]
Obituary:
Published in Tuscaloosa News on July 11, 2006[4]
Lois Johnson Abston, age 101, of Tuscaloosa, died July 7, 2006 at DCH Regional Medical Center. Services will be 11:30 a.m. today at Tuscaloosa Memorial Chapel Funeral Home with Rev. Jeff Stevenson officiating. Burial will follow in Tuscaloosa Memorial Park with Tuscaloosa Memorial Chapel Funeral Home directing. Visitation will be tonight from 6 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
She was preceded in death by her father, Gus Keene; mother, Mamie Keene; husband, Joe Melton Johnson; daughter, Frances Tramell; sister, Mary Belle Merriman; and brothers, Lee Keene, Hugh Keene, Wilkie Keene and Ray Keene.
Survivors include granddaughters, Donna (Sam) Gardiner of Bessemer and Deanna (Tony) Stoker of Bismarck, N.D.; husband, Howell Abston; daughter, Shelia (Danny) Carden; sons, Willard Travis (Linda) Peterson and Kenny Abston of Cottondale; 11 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Lois lived a very full and varied life. She attended Holt High School and the University of Alabama. She married Joe M. Johnson and had one daughter, Frances.
During World War II, she worked in defense plants in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York. Moving back to Tuscaloosa in 1949, she ran a boarding house for students and later operated a grocery store in Holt.
In her mid 70s she worked as a cashier at Greenetrack. In 1990, she married her current husband, Howell Abston
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K73-RQ74 : 10 February 2023), Lois Keene Abston, .
- ↑ "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1D-MN76 : Tue Mar 05 06:59:00 UTC 2024), Entry for Howell Abston and Will Abston, 30 Oct 1990.
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188738555/lois-abston: accessed May 3, 2024), memorial page for Lois Keene Abston (6 Jul 1905–7 Jul 2006), Find A Grave: Memorial #188738555, citing Tuscaloosa Memorial Park, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by along_the_road (contributor 48010147)
- ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKRL-5QFR : accessed 3 May 2024), Lois Johnson Abston, Alabama, United States, 10 Jul 2006; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014)
See Also:
- "United States Census, 1910", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKWC-BMX : Fri Mar 08 10:06:55 UTC 2024), Entry for Oliver Keene and William A Keene, 1910.
- "United States Census, 1920", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXDB-FRB : Sat Mar 09 20:54:20 UTC 2024), Entry for Gus Keche and Marnie Keche, 1920.
- "United States Census, 1930", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3GS2-BT2 : Thu Mar 07 21:58:17 UTC 2024), Entry for Lois E Johnson, 1930.
- "United States Census, 1940", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V15D-629 : Sun Mar 10 00:20:39 UTC 2024), Entry for J Melton Johnson and Lois E Johnson, 1940.
- Family Search Profile for Lois Edna Keene
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