Wasco County OR Archives Obituaries.....Bower, Frederick "Bud" Ernest January 25, 2006
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The Dalles Chronicle, January 30, 2006
     Frederick “Bud” Ernest Bower, 87, a resident of The Dalles since 1961, 
died at a local hospital on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006.
     He was born Feb. 21, 1918, in Ridgefield, Wash., the ninth of twelve 
children to Fred and Hulda Katherine (Yann) Bower. He grew up in the 
Ridgefield and Vancouver area, and then from 1939 to 1945, he worked as a 
truck driver.
     He married Irene Jones in Sept. 1937,in Vancouver, Wash. They later 
divorced. On Jan. 10, 1957, he married Sharon Lavonne MacDougall in Camas, 
Wash., and she preceded him in death on Nov. 22, 2004. 
     He worked as a tallyman, straddle carrier operator, loading foreman, 
planer man and mill foreman for R.A. Heintz Lumber Company in Raymond, WA and 
Bower Lumber Company in Ridgefield from 1945 to 1955. In 1956, he became a 
Beneficial Insurance representative and agent and in 1968, also became a 
cattle rancher, retiring from both professions in 1983.
     He was a member of The Dalles Moose and Elks Lodges, Fort Dalles Rodeo 
Association, 4-H/FFA Livestock Sale Committees, National Cattlemen’s 
Association, Charolais Breeders Association. He also enjoyed membership in The 
Mid Columbia, Oregon State and National Life Insurance Underwriters 
Associations. He enjoyed being active with the fund raising and sales 
committees of the Mid-Columbia Jr. Livestock Show and is a past board member 
and treasurer for the rodeo association. He also was a jewelry craftsman, a 
photographer, and was an accomplished leather tooler.
     Survivors include his daughter, Linda Bower, Vancouver, Wash; daughter-in-
law, Holly Bower, Woodland, Wash.; his sisters, Ruth Bower and Doris Niemann, 
brothers, Mitchell and John Bower; sisters-in-law, Sandy Reppe, Touchet, 
Wash., and Theresa Bibby, Grass Valley; numerous nieces and nephews, ten 
grandchildren and three great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by his 
wife, Sharon; his son, Frederick and seven siblings.
     Viewing visitation will be held at Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home 
on Monday, Jan. 30, from 2 to 7 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. to service time on Tuesday.
     Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at Spencer, 
Libby & Powell Funeral Home. Interment will follow at The Dalles Three Mile 
Road IOOF Cemetery.
     Memorials may be made to 4-H or FFA stock fund, sent in care of Spencer, 
Libby & Powell Funeral Home, 1100 Kelly Ave., The Dalles, OR 97058.


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Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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