Update 11Aug24: This year I will be taking an extended trip to Washington State to visit family and friends. I will also be revisiting my father’s archives at the University of Western Washington in Bellingham. I am searching for my father’s missing archival material. My mother sent part of it to the archives but not all. I will be examining this for the coming weeks, months and years until I find it and have started a website devoted to my father’s works. Terry Stutzman Mast and Eldon Mast apparently handled the materials after my mother’s death.

Do Eldon and Terry Mast Know Where My Father’s Missing Materials Are? My mother stipulated that Eldon and Terry Mast would buy her house at 1046 Grant Street in Longmont Colorado for fair market rate after her death in July of 2021. Terry and Eldon Mast paid 243.000 USD for the house on 1046 Grant Street in Longmont Co. The house was sold in 2022 for 450.000 USD. My mother equally left the remaining contents of the house to Eldon and Terry Mast.

I am not concerned with the house but I am concerned about my father’s missing materials.

My father was Keith Kumasen Abbott. In the spring of 2021 before her own death my mother by suicide sent my father’s archival material to the University of Western WA at Bellingham as it was my father’s wish. Before he died in 2019, Keith was busy with preparing his archival material. His sister helped supply items that my father specially wanted to be in the archive. Unfortunately not all the material reached the University of Western Washington in Bellingham. The Abbott family is committed to finding the materials that should be housed at the University. We are proud of Keith Abbott’s career and we want to honor his legacy. He didn’t achieve fame or great acclaim but he was the first writer in a family of farmers. He persevered with this dream to write. It is painful that so much of the archival material has gone missing. Keith is greatly missed by his family. We want to complete the documentation of his life as much as possible. I am willing to reimburse postage costs for my father’s materials to be sent to the University of Western Washington in Bellingham Washington. Please contact me at topersephoneabbott@gmail. I will be happy to answer questions concerning this matter. Thank you.