Bower, Edith Rebecca (Ball)

BOWER, BALL, BOOS, BACKSEN, JAY, CRANDALL

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 11/22/2002 at 11:43:22

From the FAIRFIELD LEDGER, Feb. 23, 1963.

MRS. BOWER, 80, TAKEN IN DEATH.
Last rites will be here Sunday for Mrs. Edith Rebecca Bower, 80, former well known resident of Jefferson County who died Friday at the Pine Rest home in Marion, Iowa. She had been in ill health for the past year. Until moving to Marion ten years ago, she had spent her entire life in this county near Glasgow. The rites Sunday will be at 2 p.m. at the Raymond funeral home with the Rev. J. Roland Crandall in charge. Burial will be in the Glasgow cemetery. She was born Jan. 13, 1883, in Jefferson County, the daughter of Frank and Anna Calhoun Ball. She was reared and educated in this county, and was a member of the Methodist church. On Feb. 12, 1908, she was united in marriage to William C. Bower who preceded his wife in death on June 8, 1953. Mrs. Bower is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Katharine Boos, Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. Howard Backsen, Marion, Iowa. Other survivors include three grandsons and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Jay and E. Noble Ball, both of Fairfield. She was also preceded in death by one son, one brother and a sister.