Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bowman, William Norman February 6, 1953
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Monday, February 9, 1953
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 Luck 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 1918 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 Schied’s 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 55 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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