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Norman Abell

Thu, 01/23/2025 - 09:57

Nov. 18, 1929 - Jan. 19, 2025

Norman Abell, a senior partner at Huber, Lawrence & Abell, a New York City law firm, from 1970 to 1995, died of thyroid cancer on Sunday. The Amagansett resident was 95.

For 15 years, starting in 1955, Mr. Abell was assistant director in the utilities division of the New York Public Service Commission in Albany, and had been an Air Force judge advocate.

Born in Brooklyn on Nov. 18, 1929, to Isidore Abell and the former Lena Bernstein, he grew up there and attended the borough’s Erasmus Hall High School before going on to New York University for a bachelor’s degree and Columbia Law School for a law degree. 

His interests included “tennis, bridge, opera, and being adopted by feral cats,” his family said.

Mr. Abell leaves five nieces and nephews and five grandnieces and grandnephews. He was buried at Sharon Gardens in Valhalla, N.Y.

Memorial contributions have been suggested to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 2616, East Hampton 11937, or online at arfhamptons.org.

 

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