OBIT: Harvey R. BOWERS, 1941, Martinsburg, Blair County, PA

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MARTINSBURG MAN DIES IN HOSPITAL

  Harvey R. Bowers, aged 62, prominent Martinsburg business man and civic 
leader, died at 2.55 o'clock yesterday morning in the Nason hospital, 
Roaring Spring.  He had conducted a plumbing business in Martinsburg for 
twenty-five years, being joined by his son, Elvin, in 1929.
  Mr. Bowers was a former member of the borough council and had served on 
the water commission for sixteen years.  He was a member of St. Matthew's 
Lutheran church and of Mountain lodge, No. 281, F. & A.M.  Mr. Bowers for 
many years was an active leader in the Martinsburg Boosters association.
  He was born in Martinsburg on July 5, 1879, a son of Levi and Louisa 
(Feathers) Bowers, and married Miss Mary Gertrude Detwiler on March 31, 
1904.  Surviving are his wife, two daughters and one son, Mrs. Grace 
Detwiler and Elvin Bowers of Martinsburg and Mrs. Mary Replogle of Roaring 
Spring; two grandchildren, two sisters and one brother, Miss Anna L. Bowers 
of Baltimore, Md., Mrs. C. Ross Felton of Altoona and Ross E. Bowers of 
Cortland, N.Y.
  Friends are being received at the home.

BOWERS - Funeral services for Harvey R. Bowers will be conducted in the home 
in Martinsburg Tuesday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock in charge of Rev. D. L. 
Shaffer of St. Matthew Lutheran church.  Interment will be in Rose Hill 
cemetery in Altoona.  Friends are being received at the home.

Altoona Mirror, Monday, December 15, 1941