Beckham Co. OK - Obit for David Thomas Bowman
   
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David  Thomas  Bowman  was born at Kiowa, Kansas, June 9,
1879, son of Lewis  and  Annie  Morgan  Bowman.  He  spent
his childhood in Navarre County,  Texas,  and grew to
manhood at Rush Spring, Indian Territory. In  1898 he came
to Roger Mills County with his father and homesteaded near
Reydon. Plagued  by  lifelong ill health, he led an active
life until he had a heart  attack  in  1954, and was
compelled to slow down. Only his iron will kept him ffom
being bedfast until the last week of his life, when he was
stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage which paralyzed his
throat. He died January 19, 1959 at 6 a.m. in the Cheyenne
Municipal hospital. He  was  a  loving father, a devoted
husband, an upright citizen and a good  neighbor.  He  is
survived  by his wife, Helen, their daughter, Rosanne,  his 
son,  Trammell  and his half sisters and brothers, Kate
Corvin, Lewis Wheeler, Sam Bowman and Philip Bowman. Burial
Cheyenne cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.
Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK