Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bowen, Horace J., 1958 

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H. J. Bowen Dies, Funeral Pending 

  Horace J. Bowen, a former Suffolk resident died yesterday at 6 p.m. at the 
Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee, Fla,, after a long illness.  He was 
88 years old. 

  He and his brother, the late Alfred D. Bowen, organized and operated the 
H.J. Bowen and Co. Men's Clothing Store on the Square for about 60 years.  He 
retired in 1947 and has made his home in Florida for about 10 years. 

  He was a son of the late Joseph Bowen and Martha Mason Bowen of Whaleyville, 
Md. 

  He is survived by a brother, Fred Bowen of Miami, Fla., two nephews, A.D. 
Bowen Jr. of Suffolk and Charles Bowen Jr. of Lynchburg, and a niece, Mrs. 
Jane Bowen Traylor of Suffolk. 

  The body will be brought to the Baker Funeral Home.  Funeral arrangements 
will be announced later.

[photo, captioned:] 
H. J. BOWEN 


Horace Jones BOWEN, retired Suffolk haberdasher, Spanish-American War veteran, 
b. 12 Jan 1871, MD, d. 8 Apr 1958, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block I, Lot 205*), Suffolk, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 36, No. 84, Wed., Apr. 9, 1958, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Hixburg23958 - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #191359307. 

His parents, Capt. Joseph & Martha Jane (MASON) BOWEN, are also buried there. 


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