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Robert W Bowers

Male 1890 - 1981  (91 years)


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  • Name Robert W Bowers 
    Born 18 Mar 1890  Osage City, Osage County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 29 Mar 1981  Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 1 Apr 1981  Mount Olivet Cemetery, Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2296  Rossville
    Last Modified 1 Dec 2019 

    Father Josiah Bowers 
    Mother Catherine Rose Rashford Bowers 
    Family ID F592  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lena R Barham Bowers 
    Married 1917 
    Children 
     1. Mary Bowers Bernard
     2. Mary Bowers Brand
     3. Agnes Bowers Lesofski
     4. Robert Bowers
     5. Francis Bowers
     6. James Bowers
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2014 15:31:56 
    Family ID F596  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 18 Mar 1890 - Osage City, Osage County, Kansas Link to Google Earth
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    Obituary- Bowers, Robert
    Obituary- Bowers, Robert
    Robert W. Bowers
    GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Services were in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church here Wednesday for Robert W. Bowers, 91, Great Falls. He died March 29, 1981 at a Great Falls hospital.
    He was born March 18, 1890 in Osage City, Kan., the son of Joe and Catherine Rashford Bowers. He moved to Montana in 1913 to work for the railroad.
    He was a Great Northern Railroad engineer when he retired in 1959.
    He married Lena R. Barham in 1917. She survives.
    Other survivors include three daughters, Sister Mary Bernard and Mrs. Mary Brand, both of Great Falls, Mont., and Mrs. Agnes Lesofski, Helena, Mont.; three sons, Robert Bowers and Francis Bowers, both of Great Falls, Mont., and James Bowers, Sparks, Nev.; five sisters, Catherine Bowers, Bernice Bowers, Mrs. Margaret Jones and Mrs. Emily Reaka, all of Topeka, and Mrs. Dorothy Bundy, McMinnville, Ore.; three brothers, Charles Bowers, Osage City, Kan., Lawrence Bowers, Delia, Kan and Alfred Bowers, Silver Lake, Kan.
    Burial was in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Great Falls, Mont.