Tower, Rev. Charles E. 1870-1932

TOWER, GOODPOSTER, PEARSON

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Date: 8/11/2013 at 19:05:19

From the Thursday, April 14, 1932 Hawarden Independent:

REV. C. E. TOWER DIED SUNDAY

Former Hawarden Minister Passed Away in Iowa City

Rev. Charles E. Tower, a former pastor of the Associated church in Hawarden, died at the University hospital in Iowa City Sunday. A blood clot on the lung was the cause of his death. It was known by friends here that he had been in ill health although not generally known that his condition was considered critical.

Rev. Tower was 62 years of age. He grew to young manhood at Eldora, Iowa, and entered the ministry after his graduation from college. Before coming to Hawarden as pastor of the Associated church in January, 1927, he had resided for about thirteen years in Sioux City, during eight or nine of which he served as pastor of the First Congregational church at that place. He bad not been regularly engaged in ministerial work for a period of four or five years before coming to Hawarden, having devoted much of his time to looking after farming interests near Sioux City. Following a very successful pastorate here of nearly two years. Rev. Tower sccepted a call to the pastorate of the First Congregational church in Cedar Rapids and assumed his duties there Nov. 1, 1928, and has since held that charge. During his pastorate in Cedar Rapids a fine new church edifice was erected, as was also the case during his pastorate in Sioux City.

For a number of years he has been a member of the board of trustees of Grinnell College, where his D. D. degree was obtained.

Rev. Tower is survived by his widow, a son, Gerald, aged 30, of Cedar Rapids; a daughter, Mrs. D. G. Reynolds of Kansas City, Mo.; two sisters and two brothers.

Funeral services were held in Cedar Rapids Tuesday.

Rev. Tower enjoyed the respect and merited the admiration of a wide circle of Hawarden friends who are sorely grieved at his death and extend sincere sympathy to the members of his family.

Poster's note: In the 1925 Iowa census, Rev. Tower gives his parents' names as Eunice (Goodposter) and Dewey Tower. Rev. Tower's wife was the former Olive Pearson.

According to Find-A-Grave, Charles Tower was born May 6, 1870 and died April 10, 1932