Rhea Abbott

Rhea Isabelle Abbott, 77, of Muscatine, Iowa, died Wednesday, May 10, 2006, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.
Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 13, 2006, at the New Hope United Methodist Church, 3215 Tipton Road. A Committal Service will be at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 13, 2006, at the Conesville Cemetery, Conesville. Reverend Richard Sebeniecher will officiate the services. Honorary bearers will be her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Tim, Tyler, Mindy and Brian Portwood, Robin Beard, Darcy, Nicolas and Kadynce Hendriks, Amanda and Kristy Clark, Pat Dipple, and Luke Harden.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Make a Wish Foundation or the American Cancer Society. Online condolences may be left for the Abbott family at www.wittichfuneralhome.com.
Mrs. Abbott was born April 16, 1929, in Muscatine County, the daughter of Vernald and Nettie Chasteen Chamberlin. She married Nigel Moore Abbott on October 24, 1947, at the First Methodist Church in Muscatine.
Mrs. Abbott worked at the Wilton Savings Bank until her retirement. Rhea and her husband, Nigel, ran the collection booth at Shady Creek Campgrounds. She was a life-time member of Good Sam Camping Club.
She is survived by three daughters, Linda Portwood and husband, Walter, of Oxford, Cathy Hendriks and husband, Jeff, of Muscatine, and Lorene "Lori" Harden and husband, Tom, of Muscatine; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; three brothers, Melvin Chamberlin, of Scottsdale, Arizona, Lynn Chamberlin, of Davenport, and Ed Chamberlin, of Muscatine; her twin sister, Ruth Midkiff, of Muscatine, and sister, Lois Hills, of Muscatine.
Rhea was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Nigel, in 2000, her stepmother, Gladys Chamberlin, and four brothers, Albert, Clarence, Lyal, and Roy Chamberlin.