Donald Bowling (1929-1944)

BOWLING, GIBSON, KNACKSTEDT, HADDOCK

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 4/22/2010 at 06:55:48

Jackson Sentinel
June 23, 1944

Funeral Service Held Tuesday for River Victim
Donald Bowling, 12, Drowned Thursday Afternoon

Funeral service was held Tuesday at 2:00 p.m., at Carson-Balster funeral home for Donald Bowling, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bowling, of Maquoketa, who drowned at 4:00 p.m. Thursday in the Maquoketa river, a short distance west of Highway 61 bridge. The Rev. Harry D. Green officiated and burial was in Street’s cemetery.

The tragedy occurred in almost the same place that a son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gibson lost his life a year ago.

The body of the youth was recovered about 7:30 p.m., the same evening in about 20 foot of water. The youth had been wading when he stepped off into a deep hole and was carried under the swift current before companions could recue him.

Donald Fay Bowling was born Oct. 23, 1929, in Maquoketa, the son of Guy and Gertrude Streets Bowling. He was a pupil in the Maquoketa junior high school.

He is survived by his parents; seven brothers, Kenneth in the Navy at San Diego, Calif.; Kermit, at Camp Roberts, Calif.; Paul, stationed in England; Max, at Maquoketa; and Tolbert, Jimmy and Larry, at home; three sisters, Mrs. Pauline Knackstedt, and Mrs. Maxine Haddock, of Davenport, and Nadine, at home.

Donald Bowling Grave
 

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