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Richard Bowles

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Richard Bowles

Birth
Greenfield, Dade County, Missouri, USA
Death
13 Jan 1919 (aged 37)
Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Colorado, USA
Burial
Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Colorado, USA Add to Map
Plot
D 41 sp 4
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San Juan Prospector dated Jan. 17, 1919
Richard Bowles died at his residence in Del Norte Monday morning Jan. 13, 1919 following an attack of the Spanish influenza. Funeral services were held at the grave and burial was in the Del Norte cemetery.
Richard Bowles was born at Greenfield, Missouri Sept. 24, 1881 and was thirty-seven years old. After spending his childhood in Missouri, he moved with his parents and family to eastern Colorado in 1898, coming to Del Norte with them in 1902.
He married Miss Julia McLaughlin of Del Norte and to this union two children were born, Lucille, now 9 years old, and Ralph, 7 years old. “Dick” as the deceased was known had made a success in the stock business, buying and selling livestock for many years.
Besides his wife and children, he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Bowles of Englewood, Colorado; three sisters, Mrs. Vic Stephenson; Mrs. G.B. Cochran of Del Norte; and Miss Ethel Bowles, now of London, England as a Red Cross nurse; one brother, Max Bowles of the U.S. Navy at Brooklyn, New York, and other relatives.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
San Juan Prospector dated Jan. 17, 1919
Richard Bowles died at his residence in Del Norte Monday morning Jan. 13, 1919 following an attack of the Spanish influenza. Funeral services were held at the grave and burial was in the Del Norte cemetery.
Richard Bowles was born at Greenfield, Missouri Sept. 24, 1881 and was thirty-seven years old. After spending his childhood in Missouri, he moved with his parents and family to eastern Colorado in 1898, coming to Del Norte with them in 1902.
He married Miss Julia McLaughlin of Del Norte and to this union two children were born, Lucille, now 9 years old, and Ralph, 7 years old. “Dick” as the deceased was known had made a success in the stock business, buying and selling livestock for many years.
Besides his wife and children, he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Bowles of Englewood, Colorado; three sisters, Mrs. Vic Stephenson; Mrs. G.B. Cochran of Del Norte; and Miss Ethel Bowles, now of London, England as a Red Cross nurse; one brother, Max Bowles of the U.S. Navy at Brooklyn, New York, and other relatives.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver


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