Lillie (Crabb) Stowers

STOWERS, CRABB, RAINES, HOOVER, HARSTON, STAPLETON, WERDEN, SNYDER

Posted By: bj (email)
Date: 1/29/2010 at 07:58:46

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, Friday, April 5, 1946
Mrs. Lillie Stowers Dies Saturday Night; Last Rites Tuesday

Funeral service for Mrs. Lillie Mae Stowers, 77, who died Saturday night at the Turner nursing home, was held Tuesday afternoon at Carson-Balster funeral home with Rev. H. D. Green officiating. Burial was in Clinton Memorial cemetery.

Lillie Mae Crabb was born Jan. 9, 1869, in Iowa City, and was a daughter of Ezra and Mary Raines Stowers Crabb. She was married to Ivan A. Stowers May 18, 1887, in Clinton and had resided in Wyoming, Iowa, until moving to Maquoketa two months ago.

Surviving are her husband; five daughters, Mrs. Hazel Hoover, Winfield, Iowa; Mrs. Grace Harston, Mrs. Jenny Stapleton, Clinton; Mrs. Ellen Werden, Ontario, Calif. and Mrs. Ruth Snyder, Onslow, Iowa; a son, Ray, of Maquoketa; 15 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.