Mrs. Nell Elizabeth Bowden of Route 1 Wingo, Ky., widow of Roy V. Bowden, died Thursday afternoon around 2:45 at Fulton Hospital following an extended illness. She was 88.
Services will be held Saturday at 2 P.M. at Hornbeak Funeral Home Chapel with Jimmy Barber and Hershel Jennings officiating. Burial will be in the Sandy Branch Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 P.M. this afternoon.
Mrs. Bowden was born in Fulton County April 20, 1892, daughter of the late W. R. Collins and Mrs. Allie Smith Collins. She was a member of the Sandy Branch Primitive Baptist Church.
Her husband died in 1958.
Mrs. Bowden leaves a daughter, Mrs. Marie Moon of Wingo; four sons, Roy V. Bowden, Jr. of Lavonia, Mich., Clarence Bowden of Madisonville, Billy Bowden of Garden City, Mich., and Wendell Bowden of Fulton; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Wilson of Water Valley, Ky. and Mrs. Hazel Wall of Wingo; a brother, Roy Collins of Water Valley, 22 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.
A daughter, Mrs, Carmel Ingrum; a son, Jerry Bowden, and seven sisters and brothers, also preceded her in death.
Mrs. Nell Elizabeth Bowden of Route 1 Wingo, Ky., widow of Roy V. Bowden, died Thursday afternoon around 2:45 at Fulton Hospital following an extended illness. She was 88.
Services will be held Saturday at 2 P.M. at Hornbeak Funeral Home Chapel with Jimmy Barber and Hershel Jennings officiating. Burial will be in the Sandy Branch Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 P.M. this afternoon.
Mrs. Bowden was born in Fulton County April 20, 1892, daughter of the late W. R. Collins and Mrs. Allie Smith Collins. She was a member of the Sandy Branch Primitive Baptist Church.
Her husband died in 1958.
Mrs. Bowden leaves a daughter, Mrs. Marie Moon of Wingo; four sons, Roy V. Bowden, Jr. of Lavonia, Mich., Clarence Bowden of Madisonville, Billy Bowden of Garden City, Mich., and Wendell Bowden of Fulton; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Wilson of Water Valley, Ky. and Mrs. Hazel Wall of Wingo; a brother, Roy Collins of Water Valley, 22 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.
A daughter, Mrs, Carmel Ingrum; a son, Jerry Bowden, and seven sisters and brothers, also preceded her in death.
Family Members
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Chester Diaz Collins
1881–1943
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Lula M "Mattie Louise" Collins Rhodes
1882–1936
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William Danial Collins
1885–1959
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Lillie Katherine "Kate" Collins Burnham
1887–1977
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Bertha Mae Collins Yates
1888–1969
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Cordelia Collins Rhodes
1894–1980
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Roy Raymond Collins
1896–1995
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Mary Laurine Collins Wilson
1899–1981
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Ruby Lee Collins Fisher
1902–1960
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Hazel Idaline Collins Wall
1905–1994
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