FOWLER, Marius W.: Died 1985

FOWLER, HEMINGER, RUEBEL, DICKSON

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 4/9/2022 at 08:02:12

**Handwritten: VB Reg 4 Ap 1985

Marius W. Fowler

Maius(err) Fowler was born on a farm near Keosauqua on Feb. 2, 1892 the son of Lewis (Lew) W. Fowler and Emma Heminger Fowler.

He died at the Van Buren Memorial Hospital on March 27, 1985. He attended Keosauqua High School and later earned a degree in electrical engineering at ISU, Ames. He was employed by Edison Commonwealth when inducted into the army in World War I.

He was seriously wounded at the battle of St. Miheil. He was one of thousands of casualties that spent the winter in base camp in unheated tents without floors and inadequate food. On returning to the United States he spent many months in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. He later owned and operated an electric shop in Keosauqua for twenty-some years.

During his years in Keosauqua, he took, great interest in Barracks 1553 WWI and American Legion.

During WWII he worked as an electrician in military installations in Alameda and Oakland, Calif.

He bought a farm in Vernon Township later sold it, and then lived on the farm where he was born, before moving to Keosauqua, where he lived at the time of his death.

He was preceded in death by a sister and three brothers. Surviving are two sisters, Meribah F. Ruebel, and Barbara F. Dickson, both of Keosauqua.

He had made arrangements to donate his body to the deeded body program at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and these were carried out.

Source: "Scrapbook 1981 - 1985", Pg. 238,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA