Obituary, The Oklahoman, January 12, 1994
Ed Bowers. Generations of golfers come and go, and Ed Bowers lived within the framework of his time. Bobby Jones once said that golf is a gentlemans game and those standards certainly fit Ed, even to the point that Will Rogers once said "I never met a man I did not like."
Ed carried all those qualities with him as he traversed the fairways of Lincoln Park Golf Club for 50 years, gathering the friendship of many golfers. All those years, he played with a low handicap and in many 4-ball tournaments, almost to the time of his death.
Think of this: Ed was an engineer for Southwestern Bell Telephone for 43 years, serving mostly as a night supervisor. He retired in May, 1973. Most employees go straight home in the early mornings, but not Ed. He went straight to Lincoln Park. All golfers cherish making a hole-in-one, but Ed had a monopoly in that category. His best was just a few years ago, at an advanced age, when he made a 200-yard hole-in-one into a driving windstorm. It was the first recorded hole-in-one on that particular hole in recent years. Carrying Ed to his final resting place, we'll have many memories of his love for golf.
Ed served five years in the Marine Corps in World War II. His first wife, Dorothy, preceded him in death in 1988 after 41 years of marriage shortly after he went into a nursing home. He met a fine lady, Anna, who was with him for the rest of his way. Ed's parents, Emmitt and Ida, lived in Missouri, his birth place. Other survivors are sons, George, Jr. "Butch" of Oklahoma City and Dan of St. Louis, also of Southwestern Bell; daughter, Dianna Prather of Arizona; sister, Diane and her husband, Jimmy Devine, a veterinarian. Funeral services were held at the Hahn-Cook Chapel Tuesday, January 11, 1994.
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Ed Bowers. Generations of golfers come and go, and Ed Bowers lived within the framework of his time. Bobby Jones once said that golf is a gentlemans game and those standards certainly fit Ed, even to the point that Will Rogers once said "I never met a man I did not like."
Ed carried all those qualities with him as he traversed the fairways of Lincoln Park Golf Club for 50 years, gathering the friendship of many golfers. All those years, he played with a low handicap and in many 4-ball tournaments, almost to the time of his death.
Think of this: Ed was an engineer for Southwestern Bell Telephone for 43 years, serving mostly as a night supervisor. He retired in May, 1973. Most employees go straight home in the early mornings, but not Ed. He went straight to Lincoln Park. All golfers cherish making a hole-in-one, but Ed had a monopoly in that category. His best was just a few years ago, at an advanced age, when he made a 200-yard hole-in-one into a driving windstorm. It was the first recorded hole-in-one on that particular hole in recent years. Carrying Ed to his final resting place, we'll have many memories of his love for golf.
Ed served five years in the Marine Corps in World War II. His first wife, Dorothy, preceded him in death in 1988 after 41 years of marriage shortly after he went into a nursing home. He met a fine lady, Anna, who was with him for the rest of his way. Ed's parents, Emmitt and Ida, lived in Missouri, his birth place. Other survivors are sons, George, Jr. "Butch" of Oklahoma City and Dan of St. Louis, also of Southwestern Bell; daughter, Dianna Prather of Arizona; sister, Diane and her husband, Jimmy Devine, a veterinarian. Funeral services were held at the Hahn-Cook Chapel Tuesday, January 11, 1994.
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Obituary, The Oklahoman, January 12, 1994
Ed Bowers. Generations of golfers come and go, and Ed Bowers lived within the framework of his time. Bobby Jones once said that golf is a gentlemans game and those standards certainly fit Ed, even to the point that Will Rogers once said "I never met a man I did not like."
Ed carried all those qualities with him as he traversed the fairways of Lincoln Park Golf Club for 50 years, gathering the friendship of many golfers. All those years, he played with a low handicap and in many 4-ball tournaments, almost to the time of his death.
Think of this: Ed was an engineer for Southwestern Bell Telephone for 43 years, serving mostly as a night supervisor. He retired in May, 1973. Most employees go straight home in the early mornings, but not Ed. He went straight to Lincoln Park. All golfers cherish making a hole-in-one, but Ed had a monopoly in that category. His best was just a few years ago, at an advanced age, when he made a 200-yard hole-in-one into a driving windstorm. It was the first recorded hole-in-one on that particular hole in recent years. Carrying Ed to his final resting place, we'll have many memories of his love for golf.
Ed served five years in the Marine Corps in World War II. His first wife, Dorothy, preceded him in death in 1988 after 41 years of marriage shortly after he went into a nursing home. He met a fine lady, Anna, who was with him for the rest of his way. Ed's parents, Emmitt and Ida, lived in Missouri, his birth place. Other survivors are sons, George, Jr. "Butch" of Oklahoma City and Dan of St. Louis, also of Southwestern Bell; daughter, Dianna Prather of Arizona; sister, Diane and her husband, Jimmy Devine, a veterinarian. Funeral services were held at the Hahn-Cook Chapel Tuesday, January 11, 1994.
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Ed Bowers. Generations of golfers come and go, and Ed Bowers lived within the framework of his time. Bobby Jones once said that golf is a gentlemans game and those standards certainly fit Ed, even to the point that Will Rogers once said "I never met a man I did not like."
Ed carried all those qualities with him as he traversed the fairways of Lincoln Park Golf Club for 50 years, gathering the friendship of many golfers. All those years, he played with a low handicap and in many 4-ball tournaments, almost to the time of his death.
Think of this: Ed was an engineer for Southwestern Bell Telephone for 43 years, serving mostly as a night supervisor. He retired in May, 1973. Most employees go straight home in the early mornings, but not Ed. He went straight to Lincoln Park. All golfers cherish making a hole-in-one, but Ed had a monopoly in that category. His best was just a few years ago, at an advanced age, when he made a 200-yard hole-in-one into a driving windstorm. It was the first recorded hole-in-one on that particular hole in recent years. Carrying Ed to his final resting place, we'll have many memories of his love for golf.
Ed served five years in the Marine Corps in World War II. His first wife, Dorothy, preceded him in death in 1988 after 41 years of marriage shortly after he went into a nursing home. He met a fine lady, Anna, who was with him for the rest of his way. Ed's parents, Emmitt and Ida, lived in Missouri, his birth place. Other survivors are sons, George, Jr. "Butch" of Oklahoma City and Dan of St. Louis, also of Southwestern Bell; daughter, Dianna Prather of Arizona; sister, Diane and her husband, Jimmy Devine, a veterinarian. Funeral services were held at the Hahn-Cook Chapel Tuesday, January 11, 1994.
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