Clara Ruth Dyer ⁵³¹³

   Cause of her death was Surgical shock associated with senile debility; Fracture of hip 3 days prior due to accident in her home at Wilton, Franklin, Maine.

Lewiston Daily Sun
Lewiston, Maine
October 20, 1942
p. 2

MRS. JOHN H. GOWEN

WILTON -- Mrs. Clara Ruth Gowen, 87, widow of John H. Gowen, died Monday noon at the Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, where she had been a patient since Friday, following an accident in her home in which she sustained a fractured hip. She was born in Lagrange, May 2, 1865, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Dyer. March 4, 1877, she married John H. Gowen who died in 1934. They lived in California for two years, returning to make their home in Monmouth for 30 years, following which they lived in Auburn. Mrs. Gowen came to Wilton five years ago.

She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Maud Hayes, Freeport; Mrs. Mildred Lindsay, North Monmouth; Miss Ina R. Gowen, Wilton; and Mrs. Helen Shelby, Wilton; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a brother, David N., Lagrange.

DIED -- In Farmington, Oct. 19, Mrs. Clara Ruth Gowen, formerly of Auburn, Me. Funeral services will be held from the Edwards Funeral Home, Wilton, Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Interment East Monmouth.

Clara married John Harvey Gowen, son of Benjamin Gowen and Elizabeth Huntington, 4 March 1877 in LaGrange, Penobscot County, Maine.⁵³¹² (John Harvey Gowen was born 16 August 1845 in Bradford, Penobscot County, Maine,⁵³¹² died 28 August 1934 in Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine ⁵³¹² and was buried after 28 August 1934 in Monmouth, Kennebec County, Maine at East Monmouth Cemetery ⁵³¹².)