The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. James (Mary Jane) BOWELL, Jr., Rochester; Mrs.
Walter (June) WEBER, Akron; Mrs. Alfred (Carolyn) WYNN, Morocco; three sons, George
[BOWERS[, Jr. and James R. [BOWERS], Rochester; and Gerald [BOWERS], Medaryville; one
brother, Henry HEATER, Elkhart; one sister, Mrs. Maude MOTT, Elkhart; one step-sister, Mrs.
Marjorie ROWE, Elkhart, and twenty-two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. CDT in the First Christian church with the
Rev. C. A. UNDERWOOD officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may
call at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Friday, October 23, 1959
Glen B. Bowell
Glen B. BOWELL, 52, former Rochester resident, died early today in Memorial hospital
at South Bend. Mr. Bowell, who resided at 519 West Ewing avenue in South Bend, had been ill
several years with a heart condition.
Born April 2, 1907, at Argos, he had gone to South Bend 30 years ago from Rochester.
He was married March 15, 1930, at Albion, to Relna BRYANT, who survives. His parents were
James and Nora WICKIZER BOWELL.
Mr. Bowell was employed as a machinist at the Malleable Range company in South
Bend.
Surviving, besides the wife, are the mother, Mrs. James BOWELL, Rochester; one sister,
Mrs. William (Hope) SOWERS, Rochester, and one brother, James BOWELL, Jr., Rochester.
Funeral services will be Monday at 1 p.m. CST at the Forest G. Hay funeral home on
South Michigan street in South Bend. The Rev. F. D. LAMNECK of the South Bend Nazarene
church will officiate and burial will be in the Mt. Hope cemetery at Athens.
Friends may call after Saturday noon at the Grossman funeral home in Argos until 10
p.m. Saturday, then after 10 a.m. Sunday at the Hay funeral home in South Bend.
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Saturday, October 24, 1959
Monday, October 26, 1959
Henry O. Lease
Henry O. LEASE, 81, of Wayne township died Saturday at 1:20 p.m. in the Miller
nursing home here after an illness of 21 months.
A pioneer resident of Wayne towship, Mr. Lease died in the same house in which he was
born. He was married in 1902 to Susan Mae BRUCE, who died in April, 1911. His second
marriage was in 1919 to Velma HARRIS, who survives.
Surviving besides the widow are four sons by the first marriage, Herrold J. [LEASE],
R.R. 1, Rochester; Harry [LEASE], Anchorage, Alaska, Howard [LEASE], Los Angeles, and
Homer [LEASE], Lombard, Ill.; one son by the second marriage, Harris [LEASE], Kewanna; a
step-daughter, Mrs. Joyce MARTIN, Fulton; eleven grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
A daughter, Helen [LEASE], died in 1911.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. CST in the Harrison chapel at Kewanna
with the Rev. Kenneth OVERMYER of the Grass Creek E.U.B. church officiating. Burial will be
in the Grass Creek cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.