Abbie Mann

1889 - 1984  (~ 95 years)

• Name	Abbie Mann
  Born	Oct 1889	White Hall, Illinois
  Gender	Female
  Died	27 Dec 1984	El Paso, Texas
  Buried	Restlawn Memorial Park, El Paso, Texas
  Person ID	I56062	Virts
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2015

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Franklin Mann,   b. 23 Dec 1846, Ohio ,   d. 18 Nov 1930  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Laura Bowman,   b. 1 Aug 1860,   d. 8 May 1898  (Age 37 years)
  Married	14 Jul 1878	Greene County, Illinois   [1]
  Family ID	F22247	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Robert Ewing Thomason,   b. 30 May 1879,   d. 8 Nov 1973, El Paso, Texas  (Age 94 years)
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2015
  Family ID	F22249	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Dallas Morning News, December 28, 1984 El Paso - Funeral Services for Abbie Mann Thomason, wife of the late U. S. District Judge R. E. Thomason, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church of El Paso. Mrs. Thomason, 95, died Thursday at her home in El Paso. A native of White Hall, Ill., Mrs. Thomason move to El Paso in 1917. She married R.E. Thomason then mayor of El Paso and later a member of Congress in 1927. Mrs. Thomason was active in several cultural, philanthropic and civic organizations in El Paso. She was an honorary life member of the Womens Auxiliary at R.E. Thomason General Hospital in El Paso; an honorary member of the El Paso Bar Associations womens auxiliary; a member of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce; a life member of the Womens Association at the University of Texas at El Paso; director of the Pan-American Round Table, a civic and cultural exchange organization; and an honorary member of the Juarez Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Thomason was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of El Paso. She was the grandmother of Robert W. Decherd, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the A. H. Belo Corp., which publishes the Dallas Morning News. She is also survived by a daughter, Isabelle T. Decherd of Austin; a son, William E. Thomason, of Bryan, Brazos County; three granddaughters; and seven great-grandchildren.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1634] Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935.