Obit: Mowery, Marie (1900 – 1968)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Mowery, Woodring, Beck, Adams, Karrow, Thompson, Buchanan, Miller, Mosier, Miles, Smith, Harris

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 16 May 1968

Mowery, Marie (18 APR 1900 – 11 MAY 1968)

Services were conducted Monday, May 13, 1968, at 11 a.m. for Mrs. Marie Mowery, 68, Owen (Clark Co., Wis.), who died of a coronary attack Saturday at the Victory Memorial Hospital in Stanley. The Rev. Arnold Woodring, pastor of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, Owen, officiated, and burial was made at Detroit on Wednesday, May 15th.

Serving as pallbearers were C.E. Beck, Joe Adams, Gene Adams, Art Karrow, Alfred Thompson, and Floyd Buchanan.

Mrs. Mowery was born April 18, 1900 at Wheeler, Wis., and at the age of two years moved with her parents to Norway. In 1922 she returned to the United States and made her home in Detroit until 1955, when she came to Owen.

Her marriage to Ernest Miller, who preceded her in death in 1951, took place in 1925 at Detroit. In 1957 she was married at Owen to Elmer E. Mowery, who preceded her in death in 1967.

Survivors are two sons, Robert C. Miller, La Mirada, California, and Paul Miller, Detroit, Michigan; three daughters, Mrs. E. (June) Mosier, Clarkston, Michigan, Mrs. L. (Arlene) Miles, Detroit, Michigan, and Mrs. David (Lauri) Smith, Owen; two step-children, Mrs. L. (Martha) Harris, Stevens Point, and James Mowery, Faribault, Minnesota; 19 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild.