Perry County PA Archives Obituaries.....BOWER, Mrs. Anna E. Beistline 1942, Blain ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cathy Wentz-Eisenstadt ctwentz@aol.com Surnames: Bower, Beistline, Bistline, Nesbit, McMillen, Holman, Shope Classification: Obituary Newspaper obituary located in the family files of the Perry Historians Library; abstracted. Mrs. C. M. Bower Blain, Feb. 9 (1942)-- Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Beistline Bower, 81, widow of Clark M. Bower, died Sunday at her home in Jackson Twp. She was a d/o Benjamin & Jane Nesbit Beistline and was born in Andersonburg. She was md. to Clark M. Bower in 1885 and lived her entire married life on the Bower homestead. Mr. Bower died in August 1941. She is suvived by the following children: S. Mark Bower, Tulsa, OK; Mrs. Lynn McMillen, Madison Twp; Mrs. Edward L. Holman, Bloomfield; L. Miles Bower & Benjamin B. Bower, of Jackson Twp.; 19 grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Ida Shope, Cisna Run; 3 brothers- Joseph & Clinton Bistline of Pocatello, Idaho and Nab Bistline of Los Angeles, Ca. Burial in Blain Cemetery.