Found unconscious in his automobile on the Washington road a short distance north of Waynesburg late Wednesday night, Charles Bowers, aged 49, well known resident of Kirby, died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning, May 10, 1934, in the Greene County Memorial hospital. Mr. Bowers, who had suffered a stroke of paralysis, was found by passing motorists who brought him to the hospital at 11:45 Wednesday night. Mr. Bowers, who had been a rural carrier out of the Kirby postoffice for several years, had been in ill health for several months.
A son of the late J. K. Bowers and Josephine Fuller Bowers, he was born here June 3, 1855, and spent all his life in Whiteley township. He was a member of the Whiteley Chapel Methodist Episcopal church. Besides his wife, Carrie John Bowers, he leaves two daughters, Miss Evelyn Bowers, of Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Addie Higgins, at home; one son, Charles Bowers, Jr., at home, and one sister, Mrs. O. S. Johnson, of Washington, D. C.
A son of the late J. K. Bowers and Josephine Fuller Bowers, he was born here June 3, 1855, and spent all his life in Whiteley township. He was a member of the Whiteley Chapel Methodist Episcopal church. Besides his wife, Carrie John Bowers, he leaves two daughters, Miss Evelyn Bowers, of Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Addie Higgins, at home; one son, Charles Bowers, Jr., at home, and one sister, Mrs. O. S. Johnson, of Washington, D. C.
Found unconscious in his automobile on the Washington road a short distance north of Waynesburg late Wednesday night, Charles Bowers, aged 49, well known resident of Kirby, died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning, May 10, 1934, in the Greene County Memorial hospital. Mr. Bowers, who had suffered a stroke of paralysis, was found by passing motorists who brought him to the hospital at 11:45 Wednesday night. Mr. Bowers, who had been a rural carrier out of the Kirby postoffice for several years, had been in ill health for several months.
A son of the late J. K. Bowers and Josephine Fuller Bowers, he was born here June 3, 1855, and spent all his life in Whiteley township. He was a member of the Whiteley Chapel Methodist Episcopal church. Besides his wife, Carrie John Bowers, he leaves two daughters, Miss Evelyn Bowers, of Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Addie Higgins, at home; one son, Charles Bowers, Jr., at home, and one sister, Mrs. O. S. Johnson, of Washington, D. C.
A son of the late J. K. Bowers and Josephine Fuller Bowers, he was born here June 3, 1855, and spent all his life in Whiteley township. He was a member of the Whiteley Chapel Methodist Episcopal church. Besides his wife, Carrie John Bowers, he leaves two daughters, Miss Evelyn Bowers, of Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Addie Higgins, at home; one son, Charles Bowers, Jr., at home, and one sister, Mrs. O. S. Johnson, of Washington, D. C.
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