Hattie Dee (Brouhard) Fowler (1877-1944)

BROUHARD, SULLIVAN, FOWLER, SHANK, WHITE, NORMAN, SPRATT

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:14

From Nevada Evening Journal February 28, 1944 (page 3)

Funeral Services Held Here Sunday for Mrs. Hattie Fowler

Funeral rites for Hattie D. Fowler, 67, Nevada woman, who passed away at her apartment, 733 Fifth street Friday, were held Sunday afternoon at 2:30, at Central Presbyterian church, with her pastor Rev. James D. Ransom in charge and Mrs. F. W. Cowgill at the organ.

There was a representative group of relatives friends and neighbors at the service, which was followed by burial in the Ames cemetery, by the side of her late husband, Frank N. Fowler.

Casket bearers were selected from among members of Presbyterian church of which she was an active member, as well as from former associates at the court house and from among the abstractors of the city. They were H. M. Vinsel, H. J. Montgomery, Gus Ludwig, E. P. Schindler, H. J. Sayers and Delbert Martin.

The bier was banked with floral offerings, mute, yet beautiful testimony of the high esteem in which she was held in the community, which she had served so long and faithfully.

A native of Colo, she had lived in Story county during her entire lifetime, with the exception of year or so spent at Walnut, in Pottawattamie county, where she was engaged in the mercantile business with a niece, Miss Bertha Spratt.

Following her marriage in Ames to Mr. Fowler in 1905, she came to Nevada in 1909 and from that time on until her health broke down she was much of the time employed in the court house either as a deputy or principal in county office. She had at times served as a deputy in the treasurer's office and was for a number of years county recorder, until her retirement about 7 years ago.

She was a woman of very fine ability and was highly regarded as an officer, because of her courteous and efficient manner and the accuracy and faithfulness of her work.

She had a wide and very cordial acquaintance among the electors and taxpayers of the county and will be most kindly remembered by them.

Hattie Dell Brouhard was born at Colo, Iowa, March 5, 1877, youngest daughters of Barnett and Maria Sullivan Brouhard and died at Nevada, Iowa, on February 25, 1944. Her mother died when Hattie was three months old and she was raised by her older sisters, all of whom have preceded her in death.

She was united in marriage at Ames, Iowa to Frank N. Fowler in 1905, the family moving to Nevada in December, 1909.

She is survived by a daughter, Dorothy Fowler Shank of Omaha, Nebraska, step-sons, Albert Fowler of Winter Haven, Florida, Donald W. Fowler of Philadelphia, Pa.; half brothers, Will C. Brouhard of Zearing, Iowa, John Brouhard of Colo, Iowa, Earl Brouhard of Nevada, Iowa and a half sister, Mrs. Pearl White of Colo, Iowa. Also numerous nieces and nephews.

Hattie D. Fowler is a woman that will be long and most favorably remembered by the people of the county and the community in which she had spent her entire lifetime.

The only relatives from the outside here for the funeral rites aside from the half brothers and others living in the county were a niece, Mrs. Will Norman, who came from Bellevue, Neb. Mrs. Norman is a sister of Miss Bertha Spratt, another niece who had been here from Winner, S. D. for several weeks, assisting in the care of the aunt.