Services for A. G. Abreu, Star Route West, De Soto, retired Cuban consul in St. Louis, were Saturday from Dietrich Funeral Home to St. Rose of Lima Church for requiem Mass at 9 o'clock.

Mr. Abreu, who had been a member of Robert E. Lee Post, Spanish-Americas War Veterans, De Soto, died at his home Wednesday of pneumonia. He had been confined to his home by failing health most of the time in recent months.

Mr. Abreu had resided with his wife, Elsie (nee Brandt), in this country since 1933, two years after his retirement. His services as consul for the Cuban government in St. Louis closed a long career in the diplomatic service.

He helped organize the local Spanish-American war veterans post, which once had 34 members.

Born on Nov. 10, 1878, in Cienfuegos, Cuba, he was a son of Leopold G. Abreu and Dolores Sanchez, who had large property holdings in the island. He was in Europe on a governmental mission when the sinking of the Maine, Feb. 15, 1898, precipitating entry of the United States into the struggle for Cuba's national existence.

After distinguished service in the war for Cuban independence, in which he was wounded, he entered John Hopkins University in Maryland. His studies were interrupted by need to return to Cuba to help manage the Abreu properties. Afterward he made diplomatic service his lifelong work and concern.

Surviving in addition to his wife are two sisters, Mrs. A. A. Ball, of Hampton, Va., and Mrs. M. Agramonte; also two daughters, Miss Hercilia G. Abreu, and Mrs. Nancy de la Cova, and a brother, Leopold G. Abreu, all of Havana.

Plans for burial in Cuba have been attempted, but Mrs. Abreu did not expect to learn until early this week, pending word for his relatives there, whether or not it would be possible.

One of the most colorful, interesting personages ever to reside in the De Soto area, Mr. Abreu had a legion of friends here and in St. Louis, and in important business and governmental posts of the United States and Latin American countries.

This photograph, by Jay Steinberg, former news editor, was a first place award winner in a Missouri Press Association feature picture competition. It accompanied an article on Mr. Abreu's distinguished career. Included was another picture of him as a young man in the uniform of a soldier in the Cuban war for independence.