Doc's Pavilion
Purpose
This fund supports Doc's Pavilion in Wakarusa in memory of Doc Abel.
This fund supports Doc's Pavilion in Wakarusa in memory of Doc Abel.
Eligible for 25% Match
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Date Established
12/02/2020
12/02/2020
Story of the Fund
In the first few years after moving to Wakarusa in the 1950s, Robert “Doc” Abel built a community swimming pool and pool house in his backyard.
Wakarusa, a town of 1,100 at the time, didn’t have a community pool, so Doc Abel’s new one attracted large crowds of kids and adults. To this day, Wakarusa residents remember the good times in and around that pool from the 1950s to the 1970s.
After he died in 2017, people who came to his viewing said one of two things.
“So many people either said, ‘he delivered me, or I swam in his pool.’” Nancy Roeder, Doc’s daughter says.
Read more about Doc Abel and the Doc's Pavilion Project
In the first few years after moving to Wakarusa in the 1950s, Robert “Doc” Abel built a community swimming pool and pool house in his backyard.
Wakarusa, a town of 1,100 at the time, didn’t have a community pool, so Doc Abel’s new one attracted large crowds of kids and adults. To this day, Wakarusa residents remember the good times in and around that pool from the 1950s to the 1970s.
After he died in 2017, people who came to his viewing said one of two things.
“So many people either said, ‘he delivered me, or I swam in his pool.’” Nancy Roeder, Doc’s daughter says.
Read more about Doc Abel and the Doc's Pavilion Project