Roger Mills Co. - Obit for Mrs. John Gowdy

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Obit for Mrs. John Gowdy

The Methodist church in Cheyenne would not hold the large crowd who came to pay 
tribute to Mrs. John Gowdy Sunday afternoon.  The entire front of the church in 
which Mars Gowdy had taught her Sunday school class just the Sunday before, was 
a mass of flowers, tributes from friends, relatives and organizations.

The funeral sermon was given by Rev. Paul Jones of Sentinel, former pastor of 
the church.  He was assisted by Rev. Clayton Hughes, pastor.  Committal was in 
the Cheyenne cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under direction of 
Scroggins Funeral Home.

Mrs. Gowdy was active in the Sunday School and the WWSCS of the Methodist church 
and in the Platonic club of this city.

Mrs. Gowdy died suddenly Friday morning, September 30, 1960 at Cheyenne.  Born 
September 13, 1910 in Foss, Oklahoma, she was maarried to John Gowdy in 1932 at 
Coud Chief, Oklahoma.  They came to Cheyenne from Cqanute in 1956.

Survivors are her husband, John, and one daughter, Ruth Ann, of the home, her 
mother, Mrs. Martha Hatchett, Sprinfield, Colorado, and brother, Genie Hatchett, 
Springfield, Colorado; three sisters, Jewel Albin, Merced, California, Jessie 
Murray, Foss, Oklahoma and Dewey Stewart, Wichita Falls, Texas.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, Ok