Mae Bowen
Dec. 5, 1873-July 9, 1945
Niles Daily Star, Monday, July 10, 1945, page 2, col. 7, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Mae Bowen Dies Last Night
Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Mrs. Mae Bowen, 71, of 526 Oak street who died at 8:40 p.m. Monday in Pawating hospital. She was the widow of Charles B. Bowen.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. in the Kiger funeral home with the Rev. L. George Beacock, pastor of the Methodist church, in charge. Burial will be made in Silverbrook cemetery.
Native of Three Rivers
Mrs. Bowen was born in Three Rivers, Dec. 5, 1873, and came to Niles from Cassopolis 35 years ago. She was married to Charles Bowen, Sept. 7, 1904, in Hastings. She was a member of the Methodist church and had been active in missionary and church work for many years. She was one of the oldest members of the Monday reading club.
Surviving is one brother, John G. Van Norsdall of three Rivers. Mrs. Bowen has been ill for two years and had entered Pawating hospital Oct. 17, 1944 suffering from a broken hip.
Mrs. Bowen's husband for many years operated a milling concern which was situated on Front street just north of the railroad underpass. The mill obtained its power from a canal which ran form the Dowagiac creek to the St. Joseph river. The mill was razed in the 1920s.