George N. Rowlee
1866-Feb. 25, 1940
Niles Daily Star, Monday, February 26, 1940, page 2. col. 7, microfilm Niles District Library
GEORGE N. ROWLEE TAKEN BY DEATH
George N. Rowlee, 73, died Sunday morning in his home on Route 3. He had lived in the community 42 years, coming here from Fulton, N.Y., where he was born in 1866.
Services will be in the Price and Kiger funeral chapel Wednesday afternoon at 2, with burial in Silverbrook. The Rev. G.W. Simon will officiate. Friends of the family may call at the funeral home until noon Wednesday.
Mr. Rowlee had been ill more than a year. Prior to his illness he had operated the farm where he had lived nearly half a century.
He was married in Niles to Miss Mary Alice DeMott, who survives; other members of the family are two daughters, Mrs. Lottie June Bartlett and Mrs. Catherine Clare, Niles; a brother, B.D. Rowlee, and a sister, Mrs. Nellie Ives, both of Fulton, N.Y.; also five grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Pallbearers at the funeral Wednesday afternoon will be . .[illegible]. .Chamberlain, Arthur Beebe and Henry Camp.