Submitted by
Ken Gates
JAMES W. SOWDERS
November 9, 1948 - June 15, 2006
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.
