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Lizzie Eva <I>Murrah</I> Bowen

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Lizzie Eva Murrah Bowen

Birth
Taylor County, Kentucky, USA
Death
15 Apr 1960 (aged 80)
Burial
Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section K
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Daughter of Edwin Roawin Murrah and Kitty A Waggoner.

Sister of Charles Finis, Hittie Belle, Sarah Eleanor, and Joseph Arvin.

Wife of David Jane Bowen. Married December 1895.

Mother of Lizzie Annie, Kittie Mae, Walter Murrah, Mary Ella, Millie Creola, Ora Marie, Charles Leonard, Glen Arvin, and Louis Jane.


Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, April 17, at the Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home here for Mrs. Eva Bowen, 79, a native of Adair County, who died Friday, April 15, 1960, at the Hazelwood Sanitorium in Louisville after a long illness. She was a daughter of the late E. R. Murrah and Mrs. Kittie Wagoner Murrah, professed faith faith in Christ at an early age and was a member of the Christie Chapel Methodist Church. She united in marriage to Mr. D. J. Bowen in December, 1896, who preceded her in death on Sept. 20, 1953. She is survived by six daughters, Mrs. Malcolm Cox and Mrs. Lynn Hunt, both of Campbellsville; Mrs. Welby Allen, Knightstown, Ind.; Mrs. F. L. Bault, Marseilles, Ill.; Mrs. L. C. Mills, Leitchfield; and Mrs. Willard Humphress, Louisville; three sons, Walter and C. L. Bowen, both of Campbellsville; and G. A. Bowen, California; one brother: J. A. Murrah, Campbellsville; one sister: Mrs. Ella Carpenter, Missouri; 26 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and many other relatives and friends. Rev. E. L. Dixon conducted the service, assisted by Mr. Paul Bohrer, minister of the Campbellsville Christian Church and burial was in Brookside Cemetery. Pallbearers were Omer Bohanon, Bernard Powell, Vernon Dooley, Jimmie Speer, Maurice Mings, and George Callison. ~The News-Journal, Thursday, April 21, 1960

Kentucky Death Records Index, rootsweb
BOWEN, LIZZIE E; age 80; death place JEFFERSON; residence TAYLOR; death date 15 Apr 1960; Volume 022, Certificate 10977

Taylor County, Kentucky Cemeteries, p. 86
L. Eva Bowen
10 Oct 1879 - 15 Apr 1960
Brookside Cemetery, Section K



(In my family)
Daughter of Edwin Roawin Murrah and Kitty A Waggoner.

Sister of Charles Finis, Hittie Belle, Sarah Eleanor, and Joseph Arvin.

Wife of David Jane Bowen. Married December 1895.

Mother of Lizzie Annie, Kittie Mae, Walter Murrah, Mary Ella, Millie Creola, Ora Marie, Charles Leonard, Glen Arvin, and Louis Jane.


Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, April 17, at the Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home here for Mrs. Eva Bowen, 79, a native of Adair County, who died Friday, April 15, 1960, at the Hazelwood Sanitorium in Louisville after a long illness. She was a daughter of the late E. R. Murrah and Mrs. Kittie Wagoner Murrah, professed faith faith in Christ at an early age and was a member of the Christie Chapel Methodist Church. She united in marriage to Mr. D. J. Bowen in December, 1896, who preceded her in death on Sept. 20, 1953. She is survived by six daughters, Mrs. Malcolm Cox and Mrs. Lynn Hunt, both of Campbellsville; Mrs. Welby Allen, Knightstown, Ind.; Mrs. F. L. Bault, Marseilles, Ill.; Mrs. L. C. Mills, Leitchfield; and Mrs. Willard Humphress, Louisville; three sons, Walter and C. L. Bowen, both of Campbellsville; and G. A. Bowen, California; one brother: J. A. Murrah, Campbellsville; one sister: Mrs. Ella Carpenter, Missouri; 26 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and many other relatives and friends. Rev. E. L. Dixon conducted the service, assisted by Mr. Paul Bohrer, minister of the Campbellsville Christian Church and burial was in Brookside Cemetery. Pallbearers were Omer Bohanon, Bernard Powell, Vernon Dooley, Jimmie Speer, Maurice Mings, and George Callison. ~The News-Journal, Thursday, April 21, 1960

Kentucky Death Records Index, rootsweb
BOWEN, LIZZIE E; age 80; death place JEFFERSON; residence TAYLOR; death date 15 Apr 1960; Volume 022, Certificate 10977

Taylor County, Kentucky Cemeteries, p. 86
L. Eva Bowen
10 Oct 1879 - 15 Apr 1960
Brookside Cemetery, Section K



(In my family)


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  • Added: Oct 1, 2004
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9539605/lizzie_eva-bowen: accessed ), memorial page for Lizzie Eva Murrah Bowen (10 Oct 1879–15 Apr 1960), Find a Grave Memorial ID 9539605, citing Brookside Cemetery, Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky, USA; Maintained by Sherry (contributor 46585091).