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Willard C Bowers
Jun 4, 1870 - Jun 4, 1928
Submitted by Jo Aguirre

Stillwater Gazette
8 June 1928 Friday Page 6

W.C. Bowers died suddenly on his 58th  birthday, Monday, June 4, 1928 at 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Laura McClain ,  600 E. 14th Ave., Stillwater, OK. He had been living at the home of his sister in the winter and spring months. His death was preceded by an illness of three and half years, induced by a stroke of apoplexy. 
 
The descendent was born in DeKalb County Missouri in 1870 , and came to Payne County in 1890, and  lived  with his parents on a claim four miles west of Stillwater. He married Miss Carrie  E. Bayes,  a daughter of Mrs. Frances  E. Rice and together they moved to a claim which  he obtained in the Cherokee Strip, nine miles east of Perry, which until last winter was his home.

Mrs. Bowers died in 1914, leaving to the father the rearing of their six young sons which he did faithfully and well. He was active in community and church work. He was superintendent of the Christian Sunday school at Sumner many years.

The six sons Gilbert, Chester , Ivan , Walter , Harry and Paul Bowers,  all of Noble County were with their father at the last. Besides the sons,  he is survived by his brother R.D.  Bowers of Hagerstown Maryland , two sisters Mrs. J. S.  Malone, Tulsa and Mrs. McClain ,  Stillwater,  by a number of grandchildren and many friends.

Funeral services for W.C . Bowers, 58,  who died Monday in Stillwater at the home of his sister Mrs. Laura McClain were held at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Christian church at Sumner with the Rev. P. C.  Hester officiating.

Burial was in the Sumner Cemetery. 
 

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