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Frank Lewellan Sowles

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Frank Lewellan Sowles

Birth
Paw Paw, Lee County, Illinois, USA
Death
Aug 1959 (aged 92)
Atchison, Atchison County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Effingham, Atchison County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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Sowles Rites At Effingham
Funeral services for Frank Lewellan Sowles, 92, who died yesterday at the Klopf nursing home, were held at 2 p.m. today at the Stutz-Shifflett mortuary in Effingham, the Rev. J. E. Wales officiating. Pallbearers were Frank Stever, Charles Hegarty, George Bolinger, William Hinz, Oren Kelly and Otho Hargrove. Burial was in the Effingham cemetery.
He was born at Paw Paw, Ill., March7, 1867, a son of Gideon and Martha Tensar Sowles, and moved with his parents to a farm south of Effingham in 1871. he spent the rest of his life in the Effingham community. he married Miss Martha Grabel of Effingham.
He leaves three children, Mrs. Ruth Jeffries, Baldwin Park, Calif.; Mrs.Ester Sallee, Huntington Park, Calif., and Clyde Sowles of Nortonville; two grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Atchison Daily Globe, 05 Aug 1959, Wed, Page 2
Sowles Rites At Effingham
Funeral services for Frank Lewellan Sowles, 92, who died yesterday at the Klopf nursing home, were held at 2 p.m. today at the Stutz-Shifflett mortuary in Effingham, the Rev. J. E. Wales officiating. Pallbearers were Frank Stever, Charles Hegarty, George Bolinger, William Hinz, Oren Kelly and Otho Hargrove. Burial was in the Effingham cemetery.
He was born at Paw Paw, Ill., March7, 1867, a son of Gideon and Martha Tensar Sowles, and moved with his parents to a farm south of Effingham in 1871. he spent the rest of his life in the Effingham community. he married Miss Martha Grabel of Effingham.
He leaves three children, Mrs. Ruth Jeffries, Baldwin Park, Calif.; Mrs.Ester Sallee, Huntington Park, Calif., and Clyde Sowles of Nortonville; two grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Atchison Daily Globe, 05 Aug 1959, Wed, Page 2


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