Obit of Fowler, L Gordon - Texas County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 3 Aug 1997

L. Gordon Fowler

HOOKER, Okla. - L. Gordon Fowler, 92, died Thursday, July 31, 1997.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in United Methodist Church with the 
Rev. David Cook, pastor, and the Rev. Tom R. Lee of First Baptist Church 
officiating. Burial will be in Hooker Cemetery by Roberts Brothers Funeral 
Home.

Mr. Fowler was born in Henderson County and moved with his family to the 
Oklahoma Panhandle in 1905. His father had been a homestead farmer 
southeast of Guymon. He graduated from Guymon School and attended 
Northwest Missouri State Teachers College in Maryville, Mo., on a football 
scholarship.

He married Esther Monk in Maryville. She died in 1963.

Mr. Fowler married Lorna Crockett Hammond in 1965. She died in 1996.

Mr. Fowler worked for the Oklahoma State Highway Department. He also was a 
farmer and co-owner of the Panhandle Hatchery in Hooker. He was a member 
of United Methodist Church and had served on its board of directors.

Mr. Fowler was a charter member of the Masonic Lodge in Guymon and a 
member of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. He was a member of Eastern 
Star and a charter member of the Hooker Lions Club.

Mr. Fowler served on the board of directors of the Hooker Equity Co-Op and 
on the Hooker City Council. He was appointed interim county commissioner 
by Gov. George Nigh.

Survivors include his son, Robert H. Fowler of Hooker; a daughter, Mary 
Louise Skillings of Columbia, Md.; a stepson, Glen M. Fowler of Ruidoso, 
N.M.; 17 grandchildren; and 23 great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to the Charity of Choice c/o Roberts 
Brothers Funeral Home, P.O. Box 745, Hooker, Okla. 73945.
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