Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Bowers, Dorothy E. 219220

Birth: 04/30/1926 Death: 08/20/1939 Marriage:

Cemetery: Hopewell (CTR EAST)

Record Source: Headstone, Texas Death Certificate

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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/15/2025)

Notes

THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, August 20, 1939, p. 3: “DOROTHY BOWERS OF HOPEWELL DIES. Miss Dorothy Bowers, 13 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford E. Bowers of Hopewell community, died at 7:20 o’clock Saturday evening at Lamar Hospital where she was a patient. The funeral service was set for 10 o’clock Sunday morning at Hopewell cemetery, where burial will be made, Brown-Roden Funeral Home having charge of arrangements. Survivors are her parents, two brothers and a sister, Marvin, Elbert and Margie Bowers of Hopewell and three grandparents, Mr and Mrs. J. Hugh Harris of Hopewell and R. A. Bowers of Sumner.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Dorothy Bowers
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 19 Aug 1939
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 30 Apr 1927
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: Clifford E Bowers
Mother’s Name: Bessie Harris
Certificate Number: 38767
GS Film number: 2118258
Digital Folder Number: 005144947
Image Number: 01693
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3M6-SF7 : 13 March 2018), Bessie Harris in entry for Dorothy Bowers, 19 Aug 1939; citing certificate number 38767, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,118,258.

On the same stone with Elbert C. Bowers.

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