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John Thomas Abernethy (1925 - 1993)

John Thomas Abernethy
Born in Roanoke. Alabamamap
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Died at age 68 in Washington, DCmap
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Obituary Text: JOHN THOMAS ABERNETHY

Peace Corps Official

John Thomas Abernethy, a former State Department official who retired as co-director of the Peace Corps in the Philippines, died of cancer April 12 at the Hospice of Washington. He lived in Washington.

Mr. Abernethy, a former legislative secretary to Michigan Gov. G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams (D), came here in 1961 to work as Williams's assistant when the governor was named assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Mr. Abernethy was later deputy director of the office of refugee affairs. He was an organizational development consultant from 1972 to 1978.

He and his wife, Elizabeth Dixon Abernethy, were Peace Corps co-directors in the Philippines from 1978 to 1982. He was later a consultant to organizations that included the World Bank.

Mr. Abernethy, a native of Roanoke, Ala., was a graduate of the University of Alabama and received a degree in international law from the University of Michigan. He served in the Army in Korea during the Korean War.

He was co-founder of the Peace Corps Alumni Foundation for Philippine Development.

Elizabeth Abernethy died in 1987. Survivors include a daughter, Elizabeth Abernethy Dellums of Los Angeles; and two brothers, David Abernethy of Houston and Hoyt Abernethy of Greensboro, N.C.

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Mary Abernathy
John Thomas Abernethy (1925-1993) was my first cousin. His grandfather (same person as my grandfather) was John Thomas Abernathy (1854-1908). John Thomas Abernethy (1925-1993) was a son of my uncle, Rev. Nathan Hubert Abernethy and wife Sara Haskell Betts. Rev. Abernathy was District Superintendent of The Methodist Church at Jasper in Walker Co. AL when he died in 1949. Rev. Abernethy and his sons spelled their surname AbernEthy while my father and his other brothers (and their father) spelled it AbernAthy. (The name Abernathy comes from the Nethy River in Scotland, and Rev. Abernethy thought his spelling was therefore more correct.) John Thomas Abernathy (1854-1908) married Dorthula Nelson COLE (they are buried at Verbena in Chilton Co. AL). Earlier Abernathy ancestors are buried at Macedonia Primitive Baptist Cemetery in Chambers Co. AL.

--Mary Alice Abernathy Meyer

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