Joseph Benjamin Dowler (1959)
DOWLER, O’DONNELL, SLINKER
Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 11/8/2016 at 17:46:27
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, September 30, 1959
Page 2, Column 6Ben Dowler, Lorimor, Died Wednesday
Ben Dowler, a resident of Lorimor the past twenty-five years, died at his home in Lorimor this morning at the age of 81 years.
Services will be held from the Watt’s Funeral Home in Lorimor Saturday afternoon at 2 with burial in the Beulah cemetery south of Lorimor.
________________________The Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Iowa
Thursday, October 1, 1959
Page 1, Column 7Rites Saturday For Ben Dowler
LORIMOR—Funeral services for Ben Dowler, 81, will be held at the Watts-Soll funeral home in Murray at 2 p. m. Saturday. Rev. Patrick Fredde, pastor of the Baptist church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Beulah cemetery, south of Lorimor.
Mr. Dowler was born in Madison county and lived most of his life in Madison and Union counties. He had been a farmer until recently when he moved to Lorimor.
He is survived by his wife, Lillian; three sons, Joe who is in the armed forces in Japan, Jimmy of Lorimor and Harold of Omaha, Nebr.; and two daughters, Mrs. Marie Slinker of Lorimor and Mrs. Hazel O’Donnell of Plainview, Minn.
________________________The Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Iowa
Friday, October 2, 1959
Page 1, Column 4Rites at Lorimor For Ben Dowler
LORIMOR—Funeral services for Ben Dowler, 81,will be held at Lorimor at 2 p. m. Saturday. The rites will be held at the Watts-Soll funeral home with Rev Patrick Fredde, pastor of the Lorimor Baptist church, officiating. Burial will be in the Beulah cemetery, south of Lorimor.
Mr. Dowler is survived by his widow, Lillian; three sons, James, in the armed forces in Japan, Joe of Lorimor and Harold of Omaha, Nebr.; and two daughters, Mrs. Marie Slinker of Lorimor and Mrs. Hazel O’Donnell of Plainview, Minn.
________________________Transcriber's note: Full name taken from 1880 Federal Census.
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