A retired farmer, Mr. Sowers was born in Floyd county August 10. 1877, the son of the late George Wesley and Elizabeth Mitchell Sowers and was a life-long member of the Methodist church and a member of the Jr. QUAM.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Martha Bower Sowers; four sons, George Sowers, Cambria, Va., Ernest Sowers, Richmond, Walter Sowers and Johnny Sowers, both of Pulaski; four daughters, Mrs. Virgie Swain, Pulaski, Mrs. Stella Shelor, Radford, Mrs. Murlie King and Mrs. Ada Rhodes, both of Richmond; one sister, Mrs. Bessie Lester, Radford. Also, twenty grandchildren, twenty-four great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 4 p. m. from the Newbern Methodist Church with the Rev. Ralph Malcomb and the Rev. Clifton Anderson officiating. Interment will follow in the Dublin Cemetery.
The body will be removed from Thomas M. Seagle & Sons Funeral Home to the residence where it will remain until one hour before services when it will be taken to the church to lie in state. Active pallbearers will include Henry Farris, Embert Farris, Basil Cox, Hugh Morris, Kenneth Quesenberry and Jack Vaughan.
SW Times, Pulaski, VA, Monday, June 13, 1960
A retired farmer, Mr. Sowers was born in Floyd county August 10. 1877, the son of the late George Wesley and Elizabeth Mitchell Sowers and was a life-long member of the Methodist church and a member of the Jr. QUAM.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Martha Bower Sowers; four sons, George Sowers, Cambria, Va., Ernest Sowers, Richmond, Walter Sowers and Johnny Sowers, both of Pulaski; four daughters, Mrs. Virgie Swain, Pulaski, Mrs. Stella Shelor, Radford, Mrs. Murlie King and Mrs. Ada Rhodes, both of Richmond; one sister, Mrs. Bessie Lester, Radford. Also, twenty grandchildren, twenty-four great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 4 p. m. from the Newbern Methodist Church with the Rev. Ralph Malcomb and the Rev. Clifton Anderson officiating. Interment will follow in the Dublin Cemetery.
The body will be removed from Thomas M. Seagle & Sons Funeral Home to the residence where it will remain until one hour before services when it will be taken to the church to lie in state. Active pallbearers will include Henry Farris, Embert Farris, Basil Cox, Hugh Morris, Kenneth Quesenberry and Jack Vaughan.
SW Times, Pulaski, VA, Monday, June 13, 1960
Family Members
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Virgie Alice Sowers Swain
1899–1986
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Rosa Evelyn Sowers Myers
1902–1960
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George Wesley Sowers
1905–1987
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Stella May Sowers Shelor
1909–1977
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Everett Maynard Sowers
1911–1949
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Walter Edgar "Red" Sowers
1913–2010
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Murlie Sowers King
1916–2005
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Glenwood Thomas "Johnny" Sowers
1919–1964
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Ada Lee Sowers Rhodes
1925–2001
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