I am sad to announce the sudden death of my grandfather, Harry Joseph
Bowling, who died of congestive heart failure at 4:20 pm, yesterday, Dec 12,
2000 at the age of 102.
He was born 20 Nov 1898 in Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana the
youngest of 12 children of John William and Margaret Cordelia Patterson
Bowling. He was a lifelong resident of Daviess and Martin County, Indiana
and a member of St. John's Catholic Church, Loogootee, Martin Co, IN.
He survived by his five children, John William (Ardus Braun), Mary Margaret
(Ralph) Sherfick, James Harry (Orvilla Strawn, decd), Donald Francis
(Patricia Gee) and Dorothy Agnes (Robert E.) Hortie. He has 37
grandchildren, 31 gr-grandchildren and 14 gr-gr grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Bridget Nancy Mattingly Bowling (Bea),
who died Dec 4, 1970; and his second wife, Marguerite Padgett Myers; his
sons, Joseph Lester and Raymond Louis Bowling (Jack); and a grandson, Patrick
William Bowling.
Funeral services, Saturday Dec 16, St. John's Catholic Church, Loogootee,
Martin Co, IN. Interment, St. John's Cemetery next to his wife, Bea.