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- Reece and Martha raised Andrew J. Bowers, the son she had with Green Bowers.
"Elizabethton Star," Sunday, May 21, 1939
R. B. BOWERS
R. B. Bowers, 83, died at the home at Charity Hill early Saturday morning after a short illness. Mr. Bowers was one of the pioneer settlers of Carter county. He was a member of the Free Will Baptist church.
Survivors are one son, Will Bowers; four grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted from the home at Charity Hill Sunday afternoon at two o'clock with the Rev. Hemp Hopkins, assisted by the Rev. Clarence Howington, officiating. Burial will be in the Bowers Cemetery.
The body was returned to his residence from the Roy Hathaway Funeral Home yesterday afternoon.
Active pallbearers are the following: Bruce Bowers, Wiley Bowers, James Bowers, Earl Bowers, Arthur Bowers, Harry Scalf, Nelson Shell, John Heaton.
His death certificate lists his mother as Mary Netherly. Informant was his son William.
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1856 - 1939 (~ 83 years)
