Obituaries:  Furman I. Dowden, Sabine Parish       D-350
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jan 13, 1961
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Furman I. Dowden

  Last rites for Furman I. Dowden of Lake Charles, age 52, who
died Jan. 1, in St. Patrick's Hospital, were conducted at 2 p.m.,
Monday, Jan. 2, at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, with Rev. Earl
Marr, Rev. Ralph Stephens, and Rev. H. H. Tibbitts officiating.
Interment was in the church cemetery, under the direction of
Hixson Funeral Home of Lake Charles.

  Pallbearers were nephews, Tommie Ray, Johnnie Mc, and Lynn
Charles Dowden, Ronnie Ferris, Mike, and Jerry Arthur, Glen
Scruggs, and a friend, Jerry Barnhill.

  Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mavis Dowden, Lake Charles; four
sons, Bobby Flody, Baton Rouge, SSgt. Sammy Lane, Lake Charles,
Pfc. Dawson Ivy, Condon, Oregon, Vandy Dowden, Lake Charles; one
daughter, Elizabeth, Lake Charles; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dawson
Dowden, Lake Charles; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dawson Dowden, Many,
Rt. 2; one brother, T. C. Dowden, Hornbeck; five sisters, Mrs.
Florien Arthur, and Mrs. Eva Stoker, Many, Rt. 2, Mrs. Ulma
Yeldell, Lake Charles, Mrs. Ed Scruggs, Minden, Mrs. Kalil
Ferris, Bossier City; and four grandchildren.

  He was a member of Trinity Baptist Church of Lake Charles, a
former school teacher, he had been employed for the past 10 years
as a laboratory technician at Borden's, Lake Charles.