Alice (Bowman) Hawk (1918)

BELL, BOWMAN, HAWK, SPRING

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 12/28/2011 at 10:38:01

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 11, 1918
Page 10, Column 1

Mortuary

Mrs. Ira T. Hawk

Alice Bowman Hawk was born in New Haven, Conn., June 30, 1878 and passed away Dec. 3, 1918 at Sacred Heart hospital, Fort Madison, Iowa, after and illness of only a few days. He early childhood was spent in New Haven and New York City. Finishing high school, she entered Smith college, graduating in 1903. On Jan. 3, 1908, she was united in marriage to Rev. Ira Trapper Hawk, who at the time was pastor of the Bunker Hill Congregational church at Waterbury, Conn. Some time later, she came west with her husband, living in Kansas City, Kansas, and Adel, Iowa. Four years ago they removed to Fort Madison, where Rev. Hawk accepted the chaplaincy of the state prison.

She was active in every good work. She has been an officer in both Presbyterial and synodical missionary societies and will be greatly missed for her wise counsel and earnestness in her Master's work.

Her friends were numbered by her acquaintances. She leaves to mourn her death besides her friends, her husband, one son, John; two sisters; Mrs. Enoch T. Bell of Boston, and Mrs. S. W. Spring of Ithaca, N. Y.; three brothers; Arthur Bowman of New Haven, Conn.; Harry M. Bowman of Westville, Conn.; and Ernest T. Bowman of Camp Taylor, Ky. One brother, Harry M., was present at her burial, which was held in Winterset, Iowa, Mr. Hawk's childhood home. Though dead, she liveth.

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