Submitted by

Ken Gates

 

 

 

JAMES W. SOWDERS
November 9, 1948 - June 15, 2006


James W. Sowders

     James W. Sowders, 57, of Marlin, entered into rest on Thursday, June 15, 2006. Services will be 2 p.m., Saturday at Adams Funeral Chapel with Rev. Alan Six officiating. Burial will be in the Hillcrest Cemetery.

     James was born on November 9, 1948 in Falls County to Walter and Nettie Hartman Sowders. He was a life long resident of the Marlin area and at the time of his death employed by the Calpine Corp. in Fairfield, Texas as an electrician. He was a member of the Trinity Memorial Baptist Church in Marlin and was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He loved to fish and watch his children play baseball. James will missed by all who knew him and by all whose lives he touched.

     Survivors include his wife, Kim Sowders of Marlin; Sons, Dustin Ray Sowders, Dakoka James Sowders, Drake Colby Sowders, all of Marlin; daughter, Darrah Jo Sowders of Marlin; mother, Nettie Sowders of Marlin; brother, Edward Sowders of Marlin.

     Pallbearers will be Jeff Lewis, Rene Pena, Dale Hammans, Robert Latham, Kelly Ballew and Jim Webb.

     Honorary pallbearers will be his co-workers at Calpine Corp.

     Adams Funeral in Marlin is in charge of arrangements.