Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, March 19, 1990 TAG: 9003192482
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A4 EDITION: METRO
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OBIT-FOWLER, H.
FOWLER, HELEN A.\
WILLIAMSBURG - Helen Abbott Fowler, age 82, died Saturday, March 17, 1990, at
Williamsburg Landing after a short illness. She had lived in Yorktown and in
Williamsburg since 1952 and was well known as a painter in oils and
watercolors and as a flower arranger. She was the widow of Stanley W. Abbott,
superintendent of the Colonial National Historical Park from 1952 until 1966.
Two years after his death in 1975, she married the late Harold L. Fowler,
retired dean of of the faculty at the College of William and Mary. Mrs. Fowler
was active in Williamsburg's Twentieth Century Gallery and other community
activities. During Abbott's Park Service tenure at Yorktown, they entertained
many leading American and foreign guests at the annual Yorktown Day observance
there each October 19. Born Helen Constance Schanck in Yonkers, N.Y., she
graduated from Skidmore College in 1931. After her marriage to Abbott, they
moved in 1934 to Roanoke, where he became the resident landscape architect for
the developing Blue Ridge Parkway. In 1952, the Abbotts moved to Yorktown,
where he oversaw Park Service preparations for the Jamestown 350th anniversary
in 1957. Mrs. Fowler is survived by two daughters, Elaine Hunt Abbott and Gale
Abbott Roberts; one son, Carlton Sturges Abbott, well-known architect and
artist. Also surviving are a granddaughter and five grandsons. A memorial
service will be held at Bruton Parish Church on Monday, March 19, at 11:00
a.m. conducted by the Rev. Cotesworth Lewis and the Rev. David J. Tetrault.
The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form on
contributions to the Stanley and Helen Abbott Scholarship Fund at the
University School of Architect, Campbell Hall, Charlottesville, Va. 22903.
by CNB