Bertha Lindsey Brown ³⁵⁵

The Daily Independent
Grand Island, Nebraska
Monday, January 19, 1959
p. 24

Bowen Rites Held Here Today

Funeral services for Mrs. Bertha Bowen, widow of Homer Bowen, were held this afternoon at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. The Rev. J.L. Hansen, rector, conducted the service. Burial was in Grand Island Cemetery.

Pallbearers were R.E. Stephens, A.J. Luebs, Clinton E. Cronin, Arch W. Jarrell, A.E. Hackman and Fred Housman.

Mrs. Bowen died Saturday afternoon in a local hospital. She had been in failing health for some time and had been confined at the hospital the last month. The family home is at 1104 West Division.

Mrs. Bowen was born August 26, 1874, at Delrey, Ill. to Jonathan and Adelaid Lindsay Brown. When she was an infant, the family came westward and settled near Peabody, Kan.

Mrs. Bowen was making her home with a sister in Cody, Wyo. when she met Mr. Bowen. They were married in Cody in March of 1912.

Two years later Mr. and Mrs. Bowen came to Grand Island to make their home. Mr. Bowen was a Grand Island druggist and was actively engaged in the practice of his profession at the time of his death in 1943.

Mrs. Bowen was well known in Grand Island and was a member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. She was affiliated with the Eastern Star in Omaha and with the Grand Island Women's Club.

She is survived by her only daughter, Mrs. James Bost of Grand Island; two grandchildren, Mrs. Fred Daly of Coronado, Calif. and Miss Jane Bost, who attends the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and by more distant relatives.

Besides her husband and her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Mrs. Agnes Chamberlain, and an infant brother.

  Events

• She appeared on the census in 1880 in Walton, Harvey County, Kansas. She lived in the household of her parents.

• She appeared on the census in 1895 in Newton, Harvey County, Kansas. She lived in the household of her parents.

• She appeared on the census in 1900 in Walton, Harvey County, Kansas. She lived in the household of her parents.

• She appeared on the census in 1910 in Cody, Park County, Wyoming. She lived with her sister in the Mark Chamberlain household.

• She had a residence in 1905 in Peabody, Marion County, Kansas.

• She had a residence at 107 East 7th Street in 1920 in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska.

• She appeared on the census in 1920 in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska.

• She appeared on the census in 1930 at West Division Street in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska.

• She appeared on the census in 1940 in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska. She lived in the household of her husband.

• She was buried at Grand Island Cemetery in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska.

Bertha married Homer Bowen, son of William Jasper Bowen and Harriet Chapman, 4 March 1912 in Cody, Park County, Wyoming.³⁶⁸ (Homer Bowen was born 22 January 1876 in Vales Mills, Vinton County, Ohio,^{368,372,373,374,375} died 23 July 1943 in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska ^376,377 and was buried after 23 July 1943 in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska at Grand Island Cemetery ³⁷⁶.) The cause of his death was heart disease.