Robert Bowers
Jerseyville |
AGE: 88 DIED: 12:45 a.m. January 23, 2013 at Jerseyville Nursing & Rehab Center
BORN: June 2, 1924 in Jerseyville
PARENTS: George W. & Beulah M. (Cope) Bowers, Sr. (Both Deceased)
MARRIED: June Swift, later married: Marion J. Brodd (she died November 15, 1990) and then he later married Dorothy Ellen Hambleton Hartman
DATE & PLACE: June 14, 2003 in East Alton, Illinois
OCCUPATION: Retired Teamster Truck Driver and had later worked at Farm & Home Supply and Walmart, both in Jerseyville
MILITARY: U.S. Army World War II Veteran
MEMBERSHIPS: United Presbyterian Church in Wood River and Jerseyville Moose Lodge #695 where he served as Legion of the Moose
PER HIS REQUEST HIS BODY WAS DONATED TO WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
MEMORIAL VISITATION: 9-11 a.m. Saturday February 2, 2013
At Alexander & Gubser Funeral Home in Jerseyville
MEMORIAL SERVICE: 11:00 a.m. Saturday February 2, 2013
At Alexander & Gubser Funeral Home in Jerseyville
Military Rites conducted at the Funeral Home by Jerseyville American Legion Post 492
OFFICIANT: Rev. Pam Laing
MEMORIALS: In Liu of flowers, Memorials may be made to the United Presbyterian Church of Wood River
SURVIVORS:
WIFE: Dorothy Ellen Hartman-Bowers of Jerseyville
SON: Kenneth Edward Bowers of Nevada
STEP-CHILDREN: JoEllen Extrom of Swansea, Illinois, Richard Hartman of Hutchinson, Kansas, Cathy Marshall of East Alton & Ruth Menz of East Alton
SEVERAL GRANDCHILDREN AND SEVERAL GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN
SISTER: Lois Dugger of Carrollton BROTHER: Floyd & Marilyn Bowers of Jerseyville
SEVERAL NEICES AND NEPHEWS
PRECEDED IN DEATH BY: Parents, 2 Infant Daughters, 1 Infant Son, Wife, Sisters: Emma Dugger, Mildred Gross and Helen Kinsey. Brothers: Paul, George, James Randall and Charles Bowers.
Alexander Funeral Home
