James McKim Abrams

James McKim Abrams, born April 15, 1937 died Thursday, March 20 in the care of St. Francis Hospice and Plainfield Health Care Center. The only son of Nellie Sue Abrams and Jamie McFadgen Abrams, James, a journalism graduate of Ohio University, interned on the Athens Messenger and the Marietta Ohio Times. His career included working as a tri-state reporter and Kentucky bureau chief for the Evansville Press as well as a copy editor for the former Indianapolis News where he edited the Blue Streak and wrote People in the News and Hermann Hoggelboggel. A veteran of the Vietnam era, he served in the Army counter intelligence corps. A kind and generous man, he loved baseball, animals, history, classical music, the power of the Anglo-Saxon tongue, and possessed a secret talent as an artist. Funeral services will be at 10:30 am Tuesday March 25, 2008 at Hampton-Gentry Funeral Home, Plainfield, where friends may call from 4:00 to 8:00 pm Monday March 24. Entombment will be at the Field of Valor at Crown Hill Cemetery. Survivors include his wife Leah of forty-six years, Charles and Maxine Mindling (brother-in-law and wife), Nancy Abrams Putman and Virginia Abrams Baxter of Lawrenceburg, TN, and numerous other cousins. Special thanks go to the loving caregivers of Plainfield Health Care Center and St. Francis Hospice.