Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Fowler, John W.D., 1957 

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JOHN WARWICK DANIEL FOWLER

JACK FOWLER DIES OF HEART SEIZURE

   John Warwick Daniel Fowler of Franklin was only five days past his 49th 
birthday when on Saturday a evening, December 7, about 5:30 o’clock he was 
stricken by a heart attack in the living room of his residence on Clay Street 
and died within a few minutes. 

   He had spent part of the afternoon sowing grass seed on the lawn, and had 
gone to the living room to watch on television a football game then in 
progress.  His daughter, Dell, was in the room with him.  After reclining on 
a sofa for a short while he attempted to rise.  Apparently that was when the 
seizure struck him, for he collapsed and fell to the floor. 

   Mr. Fowler was the husband of the former Emily Darby Finley, whom he 
married on August 21, 1934; and the son of the late Joseph A. and Mrs. Adina 
Councill Fowler of Franklin.  He was born December 2, 1908. 

   After graduating from Franklin High School in 1927 he attended the Benjamin 
Franklin School of Accounting in Washington, D.C.  For 15 years he was in the 
employ of the Federal government as a accountant, first with the Farm Credit 
Bureau, 1932 - 1944; and then with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 
1944 - 1947. 

   In 1947 he returned to Franklin to become office manager for S.W. Rawls, 
Inc., a position he held until his untimely death. 

   He was a member of the Franklin Baptist Church, a former deacon of the 
church, and a member of the Bruner Bible Class, the Franklin Lions Club, the 
Chamber of Commerce, and Cypress Cove Country Club. 

   Besides his wife he is survived by a son, John Daniel Fowler; a daughter, 
Miss Emily Adelle Fowler; a brother, A. Broaddus Fowler of Charlottesville; 
and four sisters, Mrs. John S. Allen of Doswell, Mrs. Paul D. Cummins of 
Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Henry Duck and Mrs. Clyde H. Eley, both of 
Franklin. 

   Funeral services were conducted in the chapel of W.J.M. Holland at 3 
o'clock by Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, pastor of Franklin Baptist Church, and Rev. 
Taylor Willis, D.D., rector of Emmanuel Eposcopal Church.  Burial was in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery, a large crowd braving the rain to pay final tribute 
to their departed friend. 

   Pallbearers were Kemper Daughtrey, Dr. Henry L. Gardner, Jack G. Holland, 
Edward Moyler, Jr., H.A. Purnell, S.W. Rawls, Jr., Robert H. Steadham and 
Kenneth B. Trousdell. 


John Warwick Daniel "Jack" FOWLER, S.W. Rawls accountant (formerly Federal), 
b. 2 Dec 1908, d. 7 Dec 1957, at home, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 133*), Franklin, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 12, 1957 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 8, 1927, p.5) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/f460j12ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 10, 1933) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/f460a1ob.txt 


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