Submitted by

Lena Stone Criswell

 

 

MARLIN DAILY DEMOCRAT

Marlin, Falls Co., Texas

Friday, January 3, 1947

 

MRS. MATTIE BOWERS

DIES IN WACO, JAN. 2

 

            Mrs. Mattie Virginia Bowers, 50, of Eddy, died in a Waco hospital at 4:35 a.m. Thursday, Jan 2.

 

            Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Friday at Wilkerson-Hatch Chapel, Rev. Mr. Terrell and Elder Roy D. Rhodes, officiating, burial in Blevins cemetery, in Falls county.

 

            Survivors:  Her husband, Grady Bowers of Eddy; two daughters, Mrs. Ernest Quicksall of Eddy and Miss Betty Jane Bowers, of Eddy; her mother, Mrs. Emma Bertrand, Waco; one brother, Roy Bertrand of Waco; three sisters, Mrs. Inez Battle of Waco; Mrs. Myrtle Crawford of Waco; and Mrs. Hope Lowden of Chicago, Ill; one granddaughter, Ester Ruth Quicksall.

 

            Active pallbearers:  Fountain Hargrove; R. O. Wilcox; Willis Wilcox; Elige Broome; Keith Todd; Harold Baker.

 

            Honorary pallbearers:  All members of the Pentecostal Church of Eddy.

 

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