Bowers, Almina Rachel 1852-1922

BOWERS, LASH, DOWLING

Posted By: Roxie Bowers Wellman (email)
Date: 1/15/2010 at 13:53:28

Extract of obit of Almina Rachel Lash from the The Whiting Argus, Friday, March 17, 1922
Location of document: Photocopy of original obit located in the Onawa, Iowa Public Library

Pioneer of Monona County Passes Away
Resided Here in Early Seventies and Until About Two Years Ago When She Moved to LeMars

Mrs. D.W. Bowers passed away at her home in LeMars on Thursday March 9 after having been a sufferer for some time from the complication of diseases the immediate cause of her death due to heart failure. She had lived with her husband and children at Whiting since the early seventies until about two years ago when she and Mr. Bowers moved to LeMars where they have since made their home. Mrs. Bowers was a native of Indiana and was born at Kendallville July 12, 1852 being the third child of David and Marianda Dowling Lash. Her father was a merchant there while her mother’s people were mostly ministers her grandfather being one of the pioneer preachers of Ohio and Indiana when they traveled on horseback from one meeting place to another. Other members of her family published a number of Sunday school and Endeavor papers. She was reared and educated in Indiana and united with the Christian Church in Kendallville when she was thirteen years of age and lived there until 1874 when she came west to make her home. She was married to David W. Bowers, a childhood playmate upon her arrival at Magnolia, Iowa, Mr. Bowers having come to Whiting in 1871 to make his home. Mrs. Bowers was of a quiet, unassuming, studious disposition and her greatest pleasure was in looking after the welfare of her home and children even after they had left the home nest to form one of their own; in her last days when she was too weak to use her hands, she was always to be found with her books. In her last sickness she suffered greatly though never complaining and bearing her burdens with fortitude, which she showed throughout her life. She was conscious to the last, and shortly before she passed away bade each member of the family goodbye, leaving a message for each. She is survived by her husband, D.W. Bowers; four sons—Fred, Carl, and Adrian of LeMars and Charlie of Whiting; one daughter, Mrs. Frank Moon of Garvin, Minnesota, twenty-two grand children and one great grandson, one daughter, Mrs. Suddith, having preceded her in death. All of the immediate surviving relatives were gathered at her bedside when the end came. Short services were held at the home Sunday morning after which the body was brought to Whiting and funeral services conducted at the Christian Church here, Reverend C.S. Kleckner of Onawa delivering a message of consolation and help to the sorrowing relatives and friends. Interment was made at Lake Cemetery. “God cannot be every place so he created Mother.”

Card of Thanks—
We desire in this way to thank the many friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us during our recent bereavement, and all those who gave the many beautiful floral offerings also the singers who furnished the music at the funeral services.
D.W. Bowers and family
Mrs. and Mrs. John Lash
A.L. Lash