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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