To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Texas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Texas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 9/1/22 • Approved: 9/2/22 • Last Updated: 9/5/22 • R534938-G534938-S3
J. Barrett Sowell
February 22, 1903-November 20, 1977
Leona Goad Sowell
April 19, 1909-January 21, 2012
Married December 4, 1927
In Memory You Are With Us As
You Always Were
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary Leona Goad Sowell
HEREFORD — Leona Sowell, 102, of Hereford died Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012.
Celebration of life services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in First Baptist Church of Hereford. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery. Arrangements are by Hereford Heritage Funeral Home of Hereford.
Mrs. Sowell was born April 19, 1909, in Castro County to Cibola Laredo and Carrie Belle Goad. She married John Barrett Sowell on Dec. 4, 1927, in Hereford.
Survivors include a son, J.B. Sowell of Conroe; a daughter, Lynn Jennings of Arlington; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to American Brain Tumor Association, 8550 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., Ste. 550, Chicago, IL, 60631; or First Baptist Church, 500 N. Main St., Hereford, TX, 79045.
Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 24, 2012.
Contributed on 9/1/22 by neldapat
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 534938