CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Cora Belle Bowers, 24 Jun 1957
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Obituary appeared in the Tuesday, June 25, 1957 Elizabethton Star 

Mrs. Cora Belle Bowers, 614 N. Pine Street, died in the St. Elizabeth Hospital
Monday at 4 p.m. after a brief illness.  She was 78, and was a native of
Carter County and a life-long resident.  Mrs. Bowers was the daughter of the
late William and Elizabeth Myers Large, prominent pioneer families of this
section.  She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred Bowers, in 1930, and
was a member of the First Baptist Church.  Survivors are three sons, Harry
Bowers, 1210 Burgie Street; Paul Bowers, 309 G Street, William Bowers, Sr.,
Rt. 7; one brother, George Large, Elizabethton; eleven grandchildren and
twenty-one great grandchildren also survive.  Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home is
in charge of arrangements.  Funeral services for Mrs. Cora Belle Bowers will
be held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. from the chapel of the Hathaway-Percy Funeral
Home with Rev. W.W. Ward, Dr. David Livingston and Rev. Ray Brown officiating.
Music will be under the direction of Lawrence Jones, Hardin Brothers Quartet
and Lewis Garrison.  Burial will be made in Happy Valley Memorial Park.
Pallbearers will be Bill Bowers Jr., Charles Bowers, Arthur Bowers, Kelly
Sharp, Glen Davis, Dr. D.E. Bowers, George Smith, Herman Colbaugh.  Flower
bearers will be the granddaughters and the following friends.  Mrs. Sue
Butler, Mrs. Ethel Hollars, Mrs. Pauline Hodge, Ms. Herman Hampton, Mrs.
Minnie Percy, Miss Addie Percy, Mrs. John Nidiffer, Mrs. B.A. Lipford, Jr.,
Mrs. Claude Harrell, Mrs. Luster VanDyke, Mrs. Eddie Matherly, Mrs. Mattie
Fair, Mrs. Lou Crosswhite, Mrs. May Fair, Mrs. John Denny, Mrs. Frank Potter,
Mrs. Annie Bowers.  The body will remain in the chapel and the family will
receive their friends in the chapel of the Funeral Home.  Hathaway-Percy is in
charge of arrangements.

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