Obit of Clower, Bernie H. - Kiowa County, Oklahoma

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Bernie H. Clower

Bernie H. Clower, 81, of Amarillo and formerly of Tulia, died Wednesday, 
Nov. 24, 1999.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Wallace Funeral Home Chapel in 
Tulia with the Rev. Charles Davenport, pastor of First Baptist Church in 
Tulia, officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.

Mr. Clower was born in Hobart, Okla., and moved to Tulia when he was 11 
years old. He graduated from Tulia High School where he participated in 
football, basketball, track and class plays.

After attending Texas Tech University, Mr. Clower was employed by the 
First National Bank in Tulia. Later, he worked for the Wichita National 
Bank in Wichita Falls where he lived for six years. He was a member of 
Lamar Avenue Baptist Church.

During World War II, he was engaged in defense work at Continental Oil 
Refinery. In 1946, he attended horology school at Hardin Junior College in 
Wichita Falls. After graduation, he returned to Tulia where he owned and 
operated Clower Jewelry for 30 years.

Mr. Clower was a member of the First Baptist Church in Tulia, the JCs, 
Kiwanis Club, Lions Club, Better Business Bureau and the School Booster 
Club. In 1975, he sold his jewelry business and worked for Murray Jewelry 
in Longview for 10 years. He was a member of Greggton First Baptist 
Church.


In 1990, he retired and, in 1992, moved to Meridian, Idaho, where he 
joined the Cherry Lane Christian Church. In 1998, he moved to Amarillo and 
was a member of the Paramount Terrace Christian Church.

He married Dorothy Marie McCune in 1940 at Tulia. He was preceded in death 
by an infant daughter, Dolores Clower.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Diane Mosley of Amarillo and 
Deedra Kelley of Longview; a son, Don Clower of Meridian; and a sister, 
Beatrice Cantrell of Amarillo.

The family suggest memorials be to Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice and Life 
Enrichment Center, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79176; or to the Salvation 
Army, 400 S. Harrison, Amarillo, TX 79101.

Amarillo Daily News, Nov. 26, 1999
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