Obit of Dowell, Agnes "Porkie" - Garfield County, Oklahoma

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Dowell, Agnes "Porkie" 

Agnes "Porkie" Dowell, 87, of Amarillo died Saturday, Aug. 28, 2004.

Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Paramount Baptist Church 
with Chad Horton, chaplain of Elizabeth Jane Bivins Home, officiating. 
Private burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery by Schooler Funeral 
Home, 4100 S. Georgia St.

Mrs. Dowell was born Aug. 3, 1917, in Nunez, La. She was the sixth of 11 
children born to Pierre and Elizabeth (Bourdeaux) Vincent. She married 
Robert "Bob" Dowell Jr. on Sept. 4, 1942, in Enid, Okla.

The Dowells were best known in Amarillo and the surrounding areas as co-
owners of Bob Dowell's Cafes. Agnes was the "woman behind the man" in the 
truest sense as she worked diligently in the restaurant business from 1949 
to 1971.

At the time of her death, Mrs. Dowell was a member of Paramount Baptist 
Church. In the 1950s and 1960s, she was a Sunday school teacher, nursery 
worker and youth leader at Trinity Baptist Church. She will long be 
remembered for her giving nature, her love of music and her Cajun cuisine 
of chicken gumbo and shrimp creole.

She was preceded in death by her husband on March 17, 1992; her parents; 
four brothers, Dudley, Whitney, Chester and Andrew Vincent; a sister, 
Annie Vincent; and a nephew, Raymond Champagne.

Survivors include two daughters, Roberta Smart and husband, Nick, of 
Amarillo and Becky Drinnon and husband, Tylor, of Sunray; five sisters, 
Yvonne Newman of Farmington, N.M., Effie Champagne of Nederland, Cherie 
Eckert of Manhattan Beach, Calif., Alyce Adams of Locust Grove, Va., and 
Monique Autrey of Nipomo, Calif.; and two grandchildren, Amy and Jerrod 
Drinnon of Weatherford, Okla.

The family suggests memorials be to Amarillo College Foundation, P.O. Box 
447, Amarillo, TX 79101; or BSA Hospice in care of Olivia's Angels, P.O. 
Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79176.

Amarillo Globe-News, Aug. 31, 2004
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