Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bowman, William Norman 1953
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Ionia Sentinel-Standard
BOWMAN, WILLIAM NORMAN:

   DAILY SENTINEL-STANDARD, IONIA, MI, Friday, Feb. 6, 1953:  "Deaths - WILLIAM
N. BOWMAN, 95, died Friday, February 6, at 4 a.m. at the Hawley Convalescent
Home in Muir.
   He was born December 24, 1857, in Auburn, N.Y., son of Mr and Mrs John Bowman.
   Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Mr. Bolitho of the Lyons
Methodist church Monday at 2 p.m. at the Shaw-Rivett funeral home in Muir. 
Burial will be in Lyons cemetery."

   DAILY SENTINEL-STANDARD, Feb. 9, 1953:  "Deaths - WILLIAM N. BOWMAN - Funeral
services for William Norman Bowman, 95, of Lyons who died at the Hawley
Convalescent Home in Muir Friday, February 6, were conducted at the Shaw-Rivett
funeral home Monday afternoon.  Interment was in Muir cemetery.
   He was born in Auburn, N.Y., December 24, 1857, son of John and Helen
Dougherty Bowman.  He came to Michigan when six years of age with his parents
and settled in Lyons.  In June, 1881, he was married to Katherine Felbel of
Lansing.  They had a son, Frank, who died at the age of 12, and four daughters,
Mrs Nellie Dick of Lansing, Mrs. Iva Tubbs of Milford, Mrs Mabel Fitch of Ovid
and Mrs. Grace Sage of Ionia, all of whom survive him.
   Mrs Bowman died March 31, 1915.  In May, 1916, he married Mrs. Marcia Smith
of Grand Rapids who died November 13, 1945.
   He was a wagon maker by trade and for many years made wagons for Dayton
Douglas of Muir.  Later he worked at Stafford's and Schieldt in Ionia.  He was a
skilled woodworker and has repaired furniture for people in the Lyons vicinity
for years.  He lived in his Lyons home 85 years.  He had been a patient at the
Hawley Convalescent home for two years.
   Surviving besides the four daughters are 8 grandchildren, 19
great-grandchildren; and 6 great-great-grandchildren.
   He was a former member of the Lyons Baptist church."

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