BROWN COUNTY TEXAS – OBITUARY: MRS. OLLIE CHAMBERS

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Brownwood Bulletin March 31, 1919

Mrs. Ollie Chambers

The death of Mrs. Ollie Chambers, wife of O. D. Chambers, occurred at 8 o’clock 
Sunday night at the family home, 813 Jackson Street. The funeral and interment 
was at 2 o’clock this afternoon at the Heflin cemetery, the service being 
conducted by Rev. L. L. Felder of Blanket. Mrs. Chambers had been ill for 72 
days, with influenza, typhoid fever, and finally with pneumonia.

Mrs. Chambers was a daughter of A. F. Bowden of this city, and was born in Pope 
county, Arkansas, April 24, 1883. She and her father moved to Brown county in 
1890, and she was reared and educated in the public schools and in Howard Payne 
College. She taught in the public schools of the county for a number of years. 
She was a member of the Methodist Church since early girlhood.

Surviving her are her husband and two children, Lois and Lowell, and three 
brothers: M. W. Bowden of this city, P. M. Bowden who is with the United States 
Reclamation Service in El Paso, and E. H. Bowden of Georgetown, Texas. The 
latter is here today for the funeral. She is also survived by a number of half-
brothers and half-sisters.