William James Fowler
Home Page |Cemetery List | Table of Contents | E-Mail
The TXGenWeb Project
Crosby County
TXGenWeb Project

Bill Fowler
Rose Spray
U.S.Flag   William James "Bill" Fowler, 74, of Ralls were held at 2 p.m. Monday, March 5, 1990 in the Ralls First Baptist Church with Dr. Jim Morrow, pastor, officiating.

Masonic Graveside Rites followed in the Ralls Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.

He died at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, March 1, 1990 in Lubbock's St. Mary's Hospital following a brief illness. He was born Oct. 10, 1915 in Leon, Kansas and married Virginia Carr April 14, 1937 in Wichita, Kansas.

He moved to Ralls in 1960 from Ft.Wayne, Missouri and was a former resident of Amarillo and Lawrence, Kansas.

He was a Baptist and a member of the Ralls Lions Club and the Ralls Masonic Lodge #931. He has been a member of the Ralls City Council since 1978 He was manager of the Retail Phillips 66 in Ralls. He was a veteran of W.W.II serving in the Army where he was a member of the "Adavance Etheion" in Japan before the signing of the peace treaty. He served in the Philippines, New Zealand and Manila. He was a Master Sgt. and a member of the Quartermaster Corps.

Survivors include his wife, Virginia Fowler of Ralls; 2 daughters, Mrs. John (Pat) Greene of Littleton, Colorado and Mrs. Don (Jennifer) Been of Ft. Worth; 3 brothers, Russel N. Fowler of Amarillo, Paul W. Fowler of Hawaii and Fred J. Fowler of Santa Rosa, Calif.; 1 sister, Beulah Swift of Torrence, Calif.; 4 grandchildren.

Honorary pallbearers were: Masons, City Council and Lion Club.

Crosby County News & Crosbyton Review, March 8, 1990
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes




Home Page | Cemetery List | Table of Contents | Helping with this Project


Crosby County TXGenWeb Project
Webmaster: Linda Fox Hughes

©Crosby County Historical Commission 1997-2017


This site may be freely linked to but not duplicated in any fashion without my consent.
The information on these pages is meant for personal genealogical research only and is not for commercial use of ANY type.