ABS Module

Wife's car is a 98 Concorde LXI which we bought new (has 120,000 miles) . A few days ago, we were on the interstate and the abs light and brake light came on; brakes still worked and fluid level was good, so we kept driving; in about 5 minutes had a flat on right rear. Had never had a flat and lights had never come on in the seven years we've had it. Local dealer recently closed, so we carried it to dealer in adjacent town. Service manager assured me the flat and lights were unrelated and it was probably a faulty wheel sensor. Computer could initially find nothing wrong; they finally called and said abs module was bad; needed replacing ($1000.00). Don't want to put this much money in a 7 year-old car, although we had planned to drive it a couple more years; except for water pump, it's been trouble free. Does this (bad abs module) make sense? Can we disable the dash lights (abs and brake)? I'm not a fan of abs brakes, and don't mind using the car without it.

ABS will not drastically affect normal braking. If the ABS module has failed, I'm not sure, I would have to see it for myself, but if you don't feel like spending $1000 to fix the module, you can keep driving the car w/o ABS. The only time ABS really becomes a factor is when you're in an emergency situation and have to hit the brakes hard, other than that, they don't prevent you from normal stopping.