Eugene Bowers

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Eugene Bowers

Eugene Bowers, 76, 704 S. Riverside Drive, Elizabethton, died Monday, July 3, 2000, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital following an extended illness.

Mr. Bowers was a native of Carter County and the son of the late Hunter and Emma Crosswhite Bowers. He was also preceded in death by a sister, Thelma Goforth, and his stepfather, Agee D. Williams.

Mr. Bowers was a member of First Free Will Baptist Church of Elizabethton and a retired mechanical draftsman with Great Lakes Research Corporation.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Edens Bowers, of the home; a daughter, Debra Bowers Pierce, Elizabethton; a brother and sister-in-law, J. Howard and Rowena Bowers, Johnson City; a sister, Elaine Proffitt, Bluff City; and four nephews, Kenny Goforth, Kingsport, Rick Bowers, Jonesborough, Robert and Mark Proffitt, both of Bluff City.

Eugene married Mary Emma Edens on 11 Feb 1949 in Washington County, , , Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Walter Brownlow Edens and Claudia M. Seaboch) was born about 1927 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; died on 29 Mar 2021 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Happy Valley Memorial Park, , Carter County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]