Surnames: STOWE THWING KANE EHLERT

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 09/14/1983

Stowe, Ruth (1894 - 1983)

Mrs. Otis (Ruth) Stowe, 89, Abbotsford, died at 8:20 p.m., Aug. 26, 1983, at the Continental Manor Nursing Home, Abbotsford, on her 89th birthday.

Services were held Aug. 29, 1983, at Maurina Funeral Chapel, Abbotsford, the Rev. Charles E. Saletri of the Missionary Baptist Church, Greenwood, officiating. Burial was in the Beaver, Clark County, Cemetery.

Mrs. Stowe, the former Ruth Thwing, was born on Aug. 26, 1894, in Columbia County. She and Otis Stowe were married on Oct. 28, 1916. He died July 7, 1955.

They farmed in the Greenwood, Withee and Abbotsford areas. She moved to Abbotsford in 1955.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Clifford (Clara) Kane, Orfordville two sons, Melvin of Abbotsford and Harold of Asheville, N.C. one sister, Mrs. Albert (Bernice) Ehlert of Abbotsford two brothers, Rufus Thwing of Havana, N.D. and Henry Thwing of Clintonville six grandchildren 29 great-grandchildren two great-great-grandchildren eight step-grandchildren.

Besides her husband, she was predeceased by one son, S1/C Laurence L. Stowe in WWII one granddaughter and three brothers.

Serving as pallbearers were Leland Ehlert, Marshfield Walter Krultz, Greenwood Jerome Vine, Racine Harold Pace, Swananoa, N.C. Alvin Trawicki, Evansville and Alvin Briggs, Fountain, Col. Maurina Funeral Chapel, Abbotsford, handled arrangements.