Obit of Bowen, Samuel Albert - Comanche County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 29 Jul 2007 Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Sunset Memorial Gardens--Lawton OK Lawton Constituion 8 Aug 2003 Samuel Albert Bowen Funeral for Samuel Albert Bowen, 78, Lawton, will be at 10 a.m. today at Immanuel Baptist Church with the Rev. Charles Baggett, pastor, officiating. Mr. Bowen died Monday, Aug. 4, 2003, at a local hospital. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens under direction of Lawton Ritter Gray Funeral Home. He was born Jan. 29, 1925, in Ada, to Simuel Archie and Etta Berthel Flowers Bowen. He grew up in Ada, and attended schools in Bing and Ada. He served in the Civilian Conservation Corp at Purcell, Sentinel and Watonga. He was a World War II veteran, and served in the infantry and as an anti-tank crewman in the Marine Corps from 1944 to 1946. After the war, he worked a short time in Detroit for Hudson Automotive. He then served three years as an apprentice bricklayer in Hobart. In 1952, he became a brick mason and private contractor in the Lawton and southwest Oklahoma area. He retired from civil service at Fort Sill in 1994. He was a member of BMPIU of A for 37 years. He married Hazel Mae Carpenter on Nov. 14, 1946, in Ada. He was a 30-year member of Immanuel Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon and Sunday school teacher. Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Maetta Roadruck and her husband, Richard, Lawton; a son, Archie Floyd Bowen, Lawton; a sister, Elizabeth Peggy DeShields, Cromwell; three grandchildren: Misty Thornton, Grandfield; Cristal Roadruck, New York; and Alison Castleberry, Alief, Texas; and three great-grandchildren: Mackenzie Thornton, Nicholas Castleberry and Bridgette Castleberry. He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers: Alvise Bowen and James Paul Bowen; and a son, Franklin Leroy Bowen. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 6465 South Yale Suite 432, Tulsa. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html