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Elsie Bilbrey McCowan

Birth
Livingston, Overton County, Tennessee, USA
Death
21 Jan 1993 (aged 71)
Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Redkey, Jay County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Father: Vanis Bilbrey
Mother: Ova Della Phillips
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The Muncie Evening Press, Friday, January 22, 1993
REDKEY, Ind.--Elsie McCowan, 71 RR 1, died Thursday in Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie.
She was born in Livingston, Tenn., and had lived in Redkey for 42 years. Mrs. McCowan was a homemaker. She attended Freewill Baptist church, Dunkirk, and First Community Baptist Church.
Survivors include three sons, Donald McCowan, Daniel McCowan and Norman McCowan, all of Redkey; two daughters and a son-in-law, Imajean and Jay Simons, Redkey, and Barbara Huber, Dunkirk; three brothers, Estel Bilbrey, Destel Bilbrey and Bestel Bilbrey, all of Tennessee; four sisters and three brothers-in-law, Elva and Cleo Swallows, Velva Padgette, Belva and J.C. Phillips and Delva and Thomas Clark, all of Tennessee; 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Her husband, Elvin D. McCowan, died in 1989; a son, Doyle McCowan, died in 1958, and a daughter, Erlene Miller, died in 1957.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Freewill Baptist Church, Dunkirk. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery. Calling will be 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at MJS Mortuaries-Redkey Chapel.
Father: Vanis Bilbrey
Mother: Ova Della Phillips
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The Muncie Evening Press, Friday, January 22, 1993
REDKEY, Ind.--Elsie McCowan, 71 RR 1, died Thursday in Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie.
She was born in Livingston, Tenn., and had lived in Redkey for 42 years. Mrs. McCowan was a homemaker. She attended Freewill Baptist church, Dunkirk, and First Community Baptist Church.
Survivors include three sons, Donald McCowan, Daniel McCowan and Norman McCowan, all of Redkey; two daughters and a son-in-law, Imajean and Jay Simons, Redkey, and Barbara Huber, Dunkirk; three brothers, Estel Bilbrey, Destel Bilbrey and Bestel Bilbrey, all of Tennessee; four sisters and three brothers-in-law, Elva and Cleo Swallows, Velva Padgette, Belva and J.C. Phillips and Delva and Thomas Clark, all of Tennessee; 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Her husband, Elvin D. McCowan, died in 1989; a son, Doyle McCowan, died in 1958, and a daughter, Erlene Miller, died in 1957.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Freewill Baptist Church, Dunkirk. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery. Calling will be 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at MJS Mortuaries-Redkey Chapel.


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  • Maintained by: Jane
  • Originally Created by: RWCNAC
  • Added: Jan 15, 2007
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17445513/elsie-mccowan: accessed ), memorial page for Elsie Bilbrey McCowan (10 Jun 1921–21 Jan 1993), Find a Grave Memorial ID 17445513, citing Hillcrest Cemetery, Redkey, Jay County, Indiana, USA; Maintained by Jane (contributor 47242360).