Obit: Gower, Lee Richard #2 (1877 - 1948)

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Surnames: Gower, Wilding, Krume, Armitage, Penzenthaler, Shatswell

----Source: Humbird Enterprise (Humbird, Clark Co., Wis.)  02/21/1948

Gower, Lee Richard (19 FEB 1877 - 29 JAN 1948)

Lee Richard Gower, son of Jessie (Shatswell) Glower, was born on the home farm in Houghtonburg, Feb. 29, 1877, and passed away on his farm near Granton Jan. 19, 1948, lacking one month of having attained the age of 71 years.

Mr. Gower grew to young manhood on his father’s farm, attending the rural school, graduating with the class of 1894.  Following his schooling, he was employed as fireman on the Northwester Railway.  Later he learned the buttermaker’s trade, in which he became quite proficient.  He built and operated a creamery near Alma Center, previous to which he worked in other creameries.

May 10, 1900, he was united in marriage with Miss Ida Wilding, and to this union two sons and three daughters were born.  Upon the death of his mother a number of years ago, Mr. Gower left the buttermaking work and returned to the farm in Houghtonburg.  Since then he has been following farming.  The family moved to a farm near Neillsville (Clark Co., Wis.) when the home place was disposed of, and then a farm near Granton was purchased.

The funeral services were held in the Methodist Church in Granton, Rev. F.A. Fahlgren preaching the sermon.  Burial was in the Neillsville Cemetery.  His wife and five children survive: Irving, on the Granton farm; Glen, Chili; Mrs. Theo Crume and Mrs. Doris Armitage, Neillsville; and Mrs. Vera Penzenthaler, Waukegan, Ill.  Besides the family, many friends mourn his death.