Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cowles, Charles S. July 21, 1961
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Belding Banner-News  Thursday July 27, 1961

           Charles S. Cowles, War Veteran, Was Buried Monday

Charles S.Cowle, 65, a lifelong resident of Belding, died Friday at United 
Memorial Hospital, Greenville. He had been in ill health for the past four 
years.

Mr.Cowles was born February 9, 1898, in Smyrna, the son of Mr.and Mrs.R.Spencer 
Cowles. On April 2, 1919, he was married to Gladys Hamilton of Alpena at Ashley, 
He was employed over a period of 16 years by Gibson Refrigerator Company, 
Greenville, and in recent years, prior to his illness, engaged in his own 
construction business.

A Veteran of World War I, Mr.Cowles fought with the 3rd Division of the 10th 
Field Artillery in the battles of Aisne, St.Minel, Marne, Nuise and Argonne, 
having been shell-shocked and gassed in the Argonne battle. He was a past 
commander of Cleveland-Wolverton Post 3794, Disabled American Veterans Flat 
River Chapter 106, Raymond I Booth American Legion Post, all of Greenville.

Surviving are his wife' two daughters, Mrs.F.W.Schade, Albion, and Mrs.James 
Hansen, Greenville; one son, Richard Cowles, Belding' three sisters, Mrs.Jesse 
Mast and Mrs.Wallace Johnson, Belding and Mrs.James Dean, Lake Odessa; and one 
brother, Claude Cowles, Grand Rapids. Surviving, also are five granddaughters, 
and 11 nieces and nephews. One great-granddaughter.


Funeral services were held Monday at 2:00 P.M. at the Fitzjohn Funeral Home with 
the Reverend Luther Brokaw of Grand Rapids officiating. Pallbearers were Burr 
Smith, Clayton Campbell, George Fitzner, Charlie Loper, Don Seeley, Charles 
Wright, Frank Hubbard and Herb Kent. Burial was in Rest Haven Memory Gardens, 
Greenville, where Military graveside services were conducted by the Veterans of 
Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans organizations of Greenville.

Additional Comments:
Rest Haven Memory Gardens
WWI 3rd.Div.10th Field Artillery

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