OBIT: Vernon Davis BOWERS, 1944/Reburial 1947, of interest in Somerset County, 
PA 

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VERNON DAVIS BOWERS
Last Rites for GI Who was Killed in Action in Germany

  Grantsville, Md., Dec. 22 - The body of Pvt. Vernon Davis Bowers, who was 
killed November 3, 1944, in Germany, arrived in Grantsville Thursday night and 
was taken to the Winterberg Funeral Home.  He was the son of Charles Wesley 
Bowers and Martha Broadwater Bowers and was born in Jennings September 3, 1924, 
where his parents live.
  He entered the armed forces after graduating from the Grantsville High School, 
class of 1943, and received his basic training at Camp Haan, California, and 
Camp Carson, Colo., before going overseas August 4, 1944, with the 112th 
Infantry, Company B.
  Surviving besides his parents are five brothers, Manning, Carl, Homer and 
Sterling Bowers, Washington, D.C., and Harry Bowers at home; two sisters, Miss 
Evelyn Bowers, Altoona, Pa., and Mrs. Mildred Bowers, Washington, D.C.
  Funeral services were conducted at the Jennings Methodist Church, Sunday 
afternoon.  Rev. D. J. Combs, the pastor, officiating.  His text from Joshua 
14:24, was very appropriate, the poems "Gold Star in the Window" and Van Dyke's 
"Henry Hudson", were read.  There was music by the church choir.
  Full military honors were conducted by the Grantsville Post No. 214, American 
Legion, at the grave in Grantsville Cemetery, Wayne H. Durst in command.
  The pall bearers were, D. W. Hershberger, C. C. Nathan, Glenn Bonnie, Harvey 
Gortner, Robert Davis and James Blocher.  George W. Deifenbach, chaplain, read 
the ceremony.  Color bearers were Cecil Edwards, William Cosden; color guards, 
Eldred Stahl and Jonas McKenzie; bugler, Roger Cole; firing squad, Glenn Miller, 
James and Kenneth Edwards, Luther Huff, George Edgar, Robert Bender, Guy Frickey 
and Darell Stahl.

Meyersdale Republican, December 25, 1947