Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bower, Katherine Anna (Fedewa) 2002 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net March 20, 2010, 5:44 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 16 Feb 2002 Katherine Bower, 82, passed away on Friday, Feb. 15, 2002, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. She was born, January 13, 1920 and raised in Westphalia. She married Louis A. Bower at St. Mary’s Church in Westphalia on November 4, 1943. They were members of St. Patrick’s Church in Portland, where they lived the hard farm life and raised their children. They enjoyed traveling and especially enjoyed playing cards with family and friends. Katherine was preceded in death and has now gone home to be with her husband of 54 years, Louis; her parents Edward and Eleanor (Pung) Fedewa; brothers Harold, Arthur, Leon, Isadore, and infant brother Raymond; sisters Beatrice Pasche, Flowrence Weber, and infant sister Marie. Surviving are her children James (Laurey) Bower, Dale (Linda) Bower, David (Kimberly) Bower, Mary K. (Byron) Kincaid all of Portland; and Karen (Mike) Halsey of Ft. Pierce, Fla; 11 very special grandchildren; also surviving are sisters-in-law Dorothy (Smith) Fedewa of Portland and Dorothy (Keilen) Bower of Grand Ledge. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated by the Rev. Charles D. Hall, Pastor at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Portland, with Rite of Committal following at Portland Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 2-4 and 7-9 Sunday with rosaries being prayed at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to Giving Tree Farm, 15433 Turner Rd., DeWitt, MI 48820. Arrangements are entrusted to the Schrauben- Lehman Funeral Home, Portland. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bower3160nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb