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- E.H. Bowers, 76, Route 2, Jonesboro died at 6:45 am Saturday at his home on the Johnson City Highway. Mr. Bowers, a native of Carter County, went to Kingsport in 1925, where he worked for 25 years as a locomotive engineer. He retired in 1950. He was a 50-year member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, a member and elder meritus of the First Christian Church of Kingsport, a member of Dashiel Masonic Lodge 238 of Elizabethton and a member of Grandview Chapter 411, Order of the Eastern Star, Gray Station, Tenn. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Logan Flanary, of the home, and Mrs. Phillip B. Hardyman, Columbus, Ohio; a son, Maj. James B. Bowers, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah; a brother, W.D. Bowers, Johnson City; a sister, Mrs. Hacker Lovelace, Johnson City; seven grandsons and two granddaughters. His wife, the former Celia Peters of Hampton, died in 1957, and a son, Lt. Wayne H. Bowers, was killed in action during World War II. Hamlett Dobson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Funeral services for E.H. Bowers will be conducted at 11 am Tuesday at the First Christian Church in Kingsport. Dr. L. Palmer Young will officiate. Pallbearers will be Bradley Ward, Gilbert Storey, Dana Frost, Louis Milhorn, Tom O'dell, E.M. Sams, Paul Storey and Cecil dunn. Elders of the First Christina Church will serve as honorary pallbearers. Masonic services will be conducted at the grave side by Dashiel Lodge No. 238 of Elizabethton.
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Abt 1885 - 1961 (~ 76 years)
