Tift County GaArchives Obituaries.....Elizabeth Davis Dowers February 1 2003 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Winnette Stinson gnw@rose.net February 7, 2003, 8:28 am Nixon Funeral Home, Feb 7, 2003 TIFTON -- Elizabeth Davis Dowers, 102, of Tifton, died Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003, at Tift Regional Medical Center after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at noon Saturday at Allen Temple AME Church. The Rev. Richard Yancey and the Rev. Reginald Jacobs will officiate. Burial will follow at Tift Memorial Gardens. Her grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Born April 30, 1900, in Tift County, Mrs. Dowers was the daughter of James Davis and Sally Thomas Davis, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Willie Dowers, and two children, Willie Nell Dowers and Richard Dowers Sr. A lifetime resident of Tift County, Mrs. Dowers was a homemaker and a member of Cherry Grove Freewill Baptist Church in Eldorado. She is survived by one son, J.D. Dowers of Atlanta; five daughters, Sallie D. Holmes of Tampa, Fla., Ida Ruth Dowers of Augusta, Virginia Barnes of Savannah, Elizabeth Dowers and Bertha D. Webb, both of Tifton; one daughter-in-law, Fannie Nell Dowers; 23 grandchildren; 38 great-grandchildren; and 11 great- great-grandchildren. Nixon Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb