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| Dr. Abel with Steve Watts, REAL Services Board Chair, and TV personality, Vicki Lawrence. |
At the 2014 Age of Excellence awards ceremony, Dr. Robert
Abel of Elkhart County received the distinguished Hoosier Lifetime Award. This
award recognizes an outstanding Hoosier who has demonstrated extraordinary service
to his or her community.
Dr. Abel grew up on a farm in Harrison Township in Elkhart
County. He graduated from Wakarusa High School, Goshen College and then
Indiana University School of Medicine, in 1950.
He served in the US Army in World War II. He has been
a member of the Elkhart County 4-H Board for 62 years, a member of the Wakarusa
Chamber of Commerce for over 60 years, and has received numerous awards for his
work Member of Wakarusa Lions Club for 60 years.
In 1962, he was appointed by a judge to develop the WaNee
School System and served on the board for 38 years. He served on the
Indiana 4-H Foundation Board for 16 years, has been awarded three Sagamore of
the Wabash, and was elected to the Indiana Football Hall of Fame.
Dr. Abel served as a Medical Director for the Bashor Home
and Holiday Rambler, and Millers Merry Manor. He has been married for 65
years with numerous children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
He has delivered 10,612 babies over the years. And at
age 89 he still makes rounds giving patient care 5 days a week, including
offering house calls for his elderly patients.
As this is only a portion of his accomplishments, Dr. Abel is truly an
inspirational man in the Elkhart community and the deserving recipient of the
2014 Hoosier Lifetime Award.
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