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Claude Dowell Veteran

Birth: 8 Mar 1896
Brown County, Indiana, USA
Death: 19 Apr 1961 (aged 65)
Benton County, Indiana, USA
Burial: Montmorenci Cemetery

Montmorenci, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID: 59432677 View Source

Indiana
Pvt 11th Co, 159th Depot Brigade
World War I

REMINGTON - Claude Dowell, 65, a Remington farmer, died in his Gilboa Township home southeast of here Wednesday, April 19, 1961. He had been ill just a few weeks. Born in Brown County, he was a veteran of World War I. In 1918 he married Ada M. Thompson; she survives. He was a member of the American Legion. Surviving with the widow are four sons, Erman of Logansport; William and Robert of Lafayette, and Paul of Remington; a daughter, Lois (Mrs. Wayne) Cooper of Goodland; his mother, Mrs. Mary Dowell of Helmsburg; four sisters, Mrs. Ivy Kelp and Mrs. Alice Roberts of Nashville, IN, Mrs. Bertha Eaton and Mrs. Bessie Riley of Valparaiso; and five brothers, Henry of Helmsburg, Millard of Otterbein, Delmas of Phoenix, AZ; and Roy and Wilson of Lafayette; also surviving are 12 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Betty Jane; and his father, William S. Dowell.
--Lafayette Journal & Courier - 4/20/1961

Indiana
Pvt 11th Co, 159th Depot Brigade
World War I

REMINGTON - Claude Dowell, 65, a Remington farmer, died in his Gilboa Township home southeast of here Wednesday, April 19, 1961. He had been ill just a few weeks. Born in Brown County, he was a veteran of World War I. In 1918 he married Ada M. Thompson; she survives. He was a member of the American Legion. Surviving with the widow are four sons, Erman of Logansport; William and Robert of Lafayette, and Paul of Remington; a daughter, Lois (Mrs. Wayne) Cooper of Goodland; his mother, Mrs. Mary Dowell of Helmsburg; four sisters, Mrs. Ivy Kelp and Mrs. Alice Roberts of Nashville, IN, Mrs. Bertha Eaton and Mrs. Bessie Riley of Valparaiso; and five brothers, Henry of Helmsburg, Millard of Otterbein, Delmas of Phoenix, AZ; and Roy and Wilson of Lafayette; also surviving are 12 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Betty Jane; and his father, William S. Dowell.
--Lafayette Journal & Courier - 4/20/1961

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1900–1969 (m. 1921)

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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59432677/claude-dowell: accessed ), memorial page for Claude Dowell (8 Mar 1896–19 Apr 1961), Find a Grave Memorial ID 59432677, citing Montmorenci Cemetery, Montmorenci, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA; Maintained by Vonda J Dowell (contributor 46922561).

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