Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Fowler, Gilbert R., 1927 

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GILBERT RANDOLPH FOWLER

THE DEATH OF GILBERT FOWLER AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS GREAT SHOCK TO FRIENDS HERE

   Gilbert Randolph Fowler, only child of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Fowler of our 
town, died at his home in First Avenue early Saturday morning, November 26, 
after a brief illness.  He was 18 years of age and was quite a popular young 
man, being noted for his courtesy and affability, his splendid school spirit 
as a student in the Franklin High School and for his sterling Christian 
character.  No one was more interested in the school than Gilbert and as an 
ardent patron of sports and all athletics of the school and town, he and on 
many occasions been of invaluable services to this paper by his kindness in 
writing up various athletic contests for us.  A general favorite among our 
people and a young man of unusual exemplary conduct and habits, his death is 
all the more distressing in that he was an only child, and his parents have 
the deepest and most sincere sympathy of our townspeople in their sorrow. 
For some time before his death he had been one of the clerks at the Stonewall 
Hotel where he had made a favorable impression upon the management and all 
guest at the hotel.

   Funeral services were held from the Franklin Baptist Church Sunday 
afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, that building being used on account of alterations 
under way at the Methodist Church, and an impressive service was conducted by 
his Pastor, Dr. Geo. H. Spooner, assisted by Rev. R.D. Stephenson of the 
Baptist Church.  The auditorium was crowded with relatives and friends, and 
the floral offerings were particularly numerous and beautiful.  Miss Claudia 
Barrett and Mrs. F.E. Howell sang as a special number "Asleep in Jesus".

   The body bearers were: W.J.M Holland, Jr., Malcolm Howell, Walter Darden, 
Pat Peters, Sam Barnes Worrell, Robert Vaughan, and Richard Barrett and 
Ellenor Howell of Suffolk.  The honorary pallbearers were his classmates from 
the Young People’s Department of the Methodist Sunday School; Bernard Smith, 
Pat Monaghan, Clyde Edwards, Paul Williams, Herman Bowles, John and Gilbert 
Panton and Otis Whitley.  Interment was made in Poplar Spring Cemetery.


Gilbert Randolph FOWLER, Stonewall Hotel clerk, 
d. 26 Nov 1927, at home, Franklin, age 18, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Sect. 2, Plot 35), Franklin, 
   27 Nov 1927, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 2, 1927, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

His mother's obits ("Tidewater News," June 2 & 9, 1950) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/f460r1ob.txt 


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