OBIT: Amy Ellen (Bittinger) BOWSER, 1940, of interest in Somerset County, PA

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meyersdale Library.
Transcribed and proofread by: Richard Boyer.

Copyright 2009.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/
________________________________________________


AMY ELLEN BOWSER

Garrett County, Maryland

  Mrs. Amy Ellen (Bittinger) Bowser died at her farm home near here at 2:30 
o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 11, following three successive strokes within 
a period of a few days.  News of her sudden death came as a shock to the entire 
community where she was well known.
  Mrs. Bowser was born May 6, 1862, a daughter of Solomon and Rebecca Broadwater 
Bittinger, and was 78 years of age at the time of her demise.  She had resided 
in the county all of her life, most of which was spent in or near the Bittinger 
section.  On April 15, 1883, she married Perry Bowser, one of the most 
prosperous and well known farmers of the county.  He died about fourteen years 
ago.  Since her marriage Mrs. Bowser had resided on the farm where she died.  
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Bowser, with the able assistance of her 
son, Lloyd, and daughter, Mrs. Annabel Beahm, continued to successfully operate 
the farm, one of the largest in this section.
  At an early age she united with the Maple Grove Church of the Brethren and 
remained one of its most faithful and devout members until her death.
  Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Ida Secrist, Easton, Md., Mrs. Jesse Gibbs, 
New Philadelphia, O., Mrs. Cora DeShiell, Cumberland, and Mrs. J. C. Beahm, at 
home, two sons, Lloyd, at home and Edward Bowser near Grantsville, fifteen 
grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Ida Meyers, Jennings.
  Funeral services were held from the home at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Dec. 
14, and interment was in the Bowser cemetery, under the direction of William 
Winterberg, local mortician.  Rev. R. W. Smith, pastor of the Church of the 
Brethren at Burlington, W.Va., officiated.  Serving as pallbearers were Charles 
O. Bender, Harry C. Edwards, Stewart Rodamer, Joseph F. Fahey, Arthur Resh and 
James Johnson.  All of the children, with their families, were here to attend 
the rites.

Meyersdale Republican, December 19, 1940