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Mart Daily Herald
Tuesday, January 4, 1938


Margie Neal Bowers Dies at of Aunt

     Margie Neal Bowers, age 10, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bowers of the Criswell and Ben Hur community, died at 8 p.m. Monday at the of her aunt, Mrs. H. L. Rutherford, 302 Goddard St., Mart, after an illness of about three months.  Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Criswell school house, conducted by Rev. Frank Cheavens, pastor of the Mart Baptist church, and Rev. Butron, Methodist pastor at Big Hill and Ben Hur.  Interment Criswell cemetery with Littlepage funeral directors in charge of arrangements.
     
     Besides her parents, deceased is survived by a brother, James, age nine, and a sister, Guynell, age 2 1/2 years; also grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin E. Bowers of the Criswell and Ben Hur community.  Pallbearers:  Wilford Pitts, Haskell Fife, Manyard Read, Lucian Read, Wayne McDaniel and J. C. Pitts.

Mart Daily Herald
Wednesday, January 5, 1938

Card of Thanks

     We wish to thank our many friends for their many kindnesses and expressions of sympathy during the illness and death of our beloved daughter, granddaughter and niece.

     Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bowers and Family, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Bowers and Family, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bowers and Family, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Rutherford, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Justice and Son.