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• He was born in 1923, the son of Lebanese immigrants. He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Nebraska in 1945, and then taught school at Kennebec and Presho before becoming a farmer. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and never married.
• Abdnor was elected to the South Dakota Senate in 1956, serving six terms in the Legislature. He then was elected lieutenant governor in 1968, filling that position until 1971. Before becoming a state senator, he had worked as an assistant clerk in the state House. Abdnor do

nated his congressional papers to the South Dakota Archives in 1993.
• His attorney, Goldammer, said Abdnor will be missed by his relatives and the friends who were his extended family.
• "There may have been political leaders who had more supporters, but nobody had more friends than Jim Abdnor," Goldammer said.
• A brother and sister preceded him in death, but nieces and nephews scattered across the country regularly visited him in Sioux Falls.
• Abdnor's funeral will be held Saturday at Lutheran Memorial Church in Pierre. Thune will give the eulogy.
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