Legacy
Abernethy had two children, one boy, Lee Roy Abernethy (retired as a senior vice president at the Bank of New York, was a consultant to the Bank of Taiwan), and one girl, Phyliss Abernethy Hendry.
He died in Jupiter, Florida, where he had spent the decade after leaving AMC. He was remembered as heading the automaker "in the stormy post-Romney '60s" and as a "big, gregarious ... first, last and always a salesman."
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