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Submitted: 5/4/22 • Approved: 5/4/22 • Last Updated: 5/7/22 • R511250-G511250-S3
Leta Flenniken Bowsher
February 19, 1886-July 17, 1966
Please see Bowsher Family Marker
*Photo/information, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary
Graveside services were conducted for Mrs. Leta Bowsher, 80, in West Park Cemetery Tuesday afternoon. A long-time resident of Hereford before she moved to amarillo [sic] in 1955, Mrs. Bowsher died in an Amarillo hospital Sunday.
The funeral was held in Blackburn Shaw Chapel of that city by Elder G.H. Rustad of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, of which she was a member, assisted by the Rev. Derrell Robinson of Hillcrest Baptist Church.
Mrs. Bowsher was born Feb. 19, 1886 in Hunt County. Her husband, H.C. Bowsher, died in 1957 and was buried in West Park.
She is survived by two sons, Paul of Hereford and Loyd of Amarillo; four daughters, Misses Ellen and Mildred Bowsher with whom she made her home; Mrs. Bill Holmes of McLean and Mrs. C.B. Garrison of Page, Ariz.; a sister, Mrs. Albert Bull of Greenville and six grandchildren.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 65th Year-No. 29, Hereford, Texas, 79045, Thursday, July 21, 1966, Page 4)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: William Bowsher
Death Date: 17 Jul 1966
Death County: Potter
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: William Saleta Bowsher
[William Saleta Flenniken]
Birth Date: 19 Feb 1886
Birth Place: Hunt, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Amarillo, Potter, Texas
Father: William C Flenniken
Mother: Virginia Ellen Robertson
Age at Death: 80
Death Date: 17 Jul 1966
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Contributed on 5/4/22 by neldapat
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