Fowler, Glenford Hugh
Born: 8/18/1900
Died: 3/21/1975
Birth: Arcadia, Neb.
Father:Alonzo Amos Fowler
Mother:Mary Eliz. Parker
Moved to Crosby Co. in 1914 from Nebraska.
Source: Adams Funeral Home
Transcribed by Bettye Odom
Glenford Fowler, a well-known resident of this area since coming here from Nebraska at age 13, was claimed by death at 8 p.m. Friday in Crosbyton Clinic Hospital. Mr. Fowler, 74, was a longtime resident of the Big Four Community where he farmed and ranched.He had suffered a heart attack last Summer, but apparently was recovering satisfactorily until becoming ill and entering the hospital last Tuesday.
Memorial services were conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in the First United Methodist Church by the Rev. Johnnie Williams, pastor.
Carter Funeral Home directed burial in Crosbyton Cemetery.
Serving as pallbearers were J.W. Criswell, John Will Stewart, Billie Cornelius, W.W. Brints, Hulen Clifton, John Pinkston, Bill Higginbotham and Henry Higginbotham. Members of his Sunday School class at First United Methodist Church were honorary pallbearers.
Born August 18, 1900, at Arcadia, Nebraska, Glenford Fowler moved with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. A. A. ("Uncle Lon and Aunt Mary") Fowler, and other members of the family to Big Four in February 1914. The Fowlers made the trip by train. They had visited here the previous year with Mrs. A. A. Fowler's brother, the late Charlie Parker. They went back to Nebraska, conducted a farm sale and returned here to make their home.
He was a member of the Methodist Church.
The former Maria Kiker and Mr. Fowler were married July 11, 1926, in Wake Community.
Mrs. Fowler is among survivors, which also include: two daughters, Mrs. Maygene Flatt of San Antonio and Mrs. Loreta Henderson of Stratord; two sons, J.M. Fowler of Crosbyton and Wayne Fowler of Plainview; one brother, Arnal Fowler of Crosbyton; and 10 grandchildren.
Crosbyton Review,, March 27, 1975
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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