William Campbell Abbey ’25

BILL ABBEY was born in Lampasas, Tex. and attended Culver Military Academy. After two years at Rice Univ., he transferred to Princeton. While with us, he was a member of Cannon Club, Whig, and the Class Memorial Committee.

He was a loyal and popular member of the Class, a regional V.P., and served on several reunion committees.

Upon graduation he returned to Del Rio and assisted his father in the family mercantile business. In 1934 he joined Aetna Insurance Co. in Los Angeles, Texas, and Hartford, Conn., later moving to San Antonio with Connecticut General as manager. He managed his ranch in Val Verde County. A life director of the Sheep and Goat Raisers Assoc., he was also a member of the San Antonio Country Club (president in 1953), and of the Argyle, Plaza, and Conopus Clubs. He was a champion live pigeon shot, and attended a number of international shoots, winning one in Madrid at age 77, and attending his last one in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1987.

He died on Nov. 19, 1989, and is survived by Beverly Timberlake Abbey, whom he married in 1986, a daughter, by a previous marriage, Claudia Ball, and son-in-law Judge T. Armour Ball, daughter Amy, and granddaughter Alice Ban Strunk.