| Doyle Cowan
Doyle W. Cowan, 75, employed by the city of Abilene for 13 years
until retiring, died Saturday in a local hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Elliott-Hamil Funeral Home
Chapel of Faith, 5701 U.S. Hwy 277 South. Graveside services will be at
4:30 p.m. in Cottonwood Cemetery.
Mr. Cowan was born in Childress and attended school in Memphis and
Hillsboro. He served with the U.S. Naval Air Corps aboard the aircraft
carrier USS Essex during World War II and moved to Abilene in 1969 from
Cross Plains. He was a member of Baker Heights Church of Christ and was
the widower of Clara Mae Woody Cowan, whom he married in 1942 in Cross
Plains.
Survivors include one son, Tommy Cowan of Austin; two daughters,
Wanda Wheeler and Linda O'Dell, both of Abilene; two sisters, Lavatha
Gentry of Fort Worth and Corrine Barnett of Snyder; eight grandchildren;
and nine great-grandchildren.
Abilene Reporter News, Abilene, Texas, Apr
19, 1998 |
