[Newspaper]
Publication: The Muncie Evening Press
Muncie, IN, United States
COL. McABEE IS
HEART VICTIM
Rites Being Arranged for
Retired Manufacturer.
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| COL. PHILLIP W. McABEE. |
Funeral arrangements are being made here today for Col. Philip W. McAbee, retired Muncie manufacturer, who died unexpectedly Monday night in Knoxville, Tenn., following a heart attack. Col. McAbee is being returned to the Meeks mortuary in Muncie where final rites will be planned.
Prior to his retirement in 1933, Col. McAbee served as president of the Hemingray Glass Company, which was consolidated with the Owens-Illinois Company in that year. He had resided at the Delaware Hotel since selling his home on East Washington St., last spring.
HIS WIFE, the former Carroll Hemingray, died in February of 1947 in Florida where the McAbee's were spending the winter.
The son of Newton S. and Mary Green McAbee, Col. McAbee was born Sept. 22, 1880, at Cleveland, Ohio, and was educated in the Cleveland public schools, later attending Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. In 1904, after serving as an accountant for the East Ohio Gas Company, he came to Muncie serving as secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Pipe Company. He returned to Cleveland for nine years in the employ of the McAllister contracting firm.
HE ENLISTED in the armed forces in 1917, and was later commissioned a captain in the infantry. In May, 1918, he was assigned as a classification camp commanding officer. He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in Sept. 1918, and was commissioned a colonel in the Officer Reserve Corps in 1920.
While in Muncie, Col. McAbee has served as president of the Board of Works in the John Quick administration, and was one of the organizers of the Muncie Community Fund. He was a member of the Delaware Post 19, American Legion, a past president of the Muncie Rotary Club, a member of the Delaware Country Club, and the Spur Riding Club, serving as grand marshal at many civic parades. He also was one of the founders of the Muncie Civic Theater.