Mabel E. Bowman Miller 1899-1920

MILLER, BOWMAN, DRESSER, MERRIAU

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Date: 3/15/2010 at 22:31:38

Mrs. Arthur Dresser is in receipt of a communication informing her of the death in a hospital at Long Beach, Calif., of Mrs. Miller, who will be best remembered by Postville people as Mabel Bowman. Her death followed a surgical operation. The body will be brought to Greene, Iowa, for interment.

~Postville Herald, July 2, 1920

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Mabel Bowman-Miller
Mabel E., daughter of Frank and Mabel Bowman was born on the farm in Floyd county, April 21, 1899. Five weeks after her birth her mother passed to the Great Beyond, leaving her to the loving care of a father and relatives. For a few months she lived with her Grandmother Dresser at Postville, Iowa, after which she came to her Grandmother Bowman at Greene. At the age of five she came to be with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Merriau, where she was loved and cared for as an only child. When she reached the age of eight she came to Greene with her uncle and aunt and entered the third grade of the public school. Here she continued her course until her graduation in 1917. She then entered the Cedar Rapids Business College and took a course in bookkeeping, which was completed in February 1918. For several months following this she did office work at Waterloo, Clarence and Cedar Rapids. Her health finally failed and she was compelled to submit to two operations. In the summer of 1919 she came to her home in Greene for recuperation and rest.

November 19th she was united in marriage to Roland Miller at Greene, shich which time her home has been at Long Beach, Calif. Here in the midst of the happiness of that beautiful western home she was again overtaken by a former ailment which necessitated another operation from which she never recovered. She died at Long Beach, Calif., June 27, 1920, at the age of 21 years, two months and six days.

Mabel was a girl marked by a quiet simple beauty of character. Her christian culture received its training in the home where she lived and from the Methodist church in Greene with which she united June 11, 1916. Funeral services were held from the church in Greene, Tuesday, July 6th. Interment in Rose Hill cemetery. - Greene (Iowa) Recorder

~as reprinted in the Postville Herald, July 16, 1920