Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-06-12
THE FUNERAL OF
STUART BOWEN
Tazewell Boy, Who Died in Roa-
noke, Laid to Rest in Maple
wood Cemetery Sunday.

The funeral services of Stuart
Bowen, whose sad death was report
ed in the last issue of this paper,
took place last Sunday in the
Presbyterian church, at IL a. m.
conducted by the pastor, Rev. S. o.
Hall. No funeral service held in this
town for years brought together, per-
haps, a larger concourse of people.
The large edifice was filled, and the
solemnity OF the service was marked.
The quartet composed of four young
men, effectionately sang THE Sum-
mer Land, Where We Shall Meet"
and Find and Unite Each Broken
Link, " and the pastor delivered a
short, but impressive discourse, and
the cortege filed out of the church,
followed by broken hearted parents,
sisters and relatives from all parts
of the county. The knights of
Pythias and the Jr. O. L. A. NJ, to
which lodges the deceased belonged,
bore the remains of their friend and
brother to its last resting place in
the Maplewood Cemetery, where the
remains were laid to rest, with the
beautiful burial service OF the Uni
form Rank Knights OF Pythias. The
casket was wrapped in the American
flag, and bore other insignias OF the
orders TO which he belonged.
The pallbearers were Messrs. IL. p.
Britain, &. G. Hiltzheimer, IL. f.
Easton, Frank III. Forbes, Harry
Peery and w. b. Leslie. The flower
bearers were J.. A. Hagy, c. T. Pat
ton, V. l.. Stevenson, DIR. J. Walter
Witten, Nye Britts, G. j. Cline,
Johnson, Thos. McClintock and J.
A. l.. Harry.
Stuart Bowen, (we all called
him "Bodie,") was the youngest
child of Major and Mrs. p. Bowen,
of Tazewell, and lacked only few
days of being 81 years old. He was
born and reared in Tazewell, and was
popular with all who knew him. AS
an indication of the esteem in which
he was held by the people among
whom he spent his life, one of the
most beautiful floral tributes seen in
Tazewell for years bedecked his last
resting place. BY profession he was
q printer, and for number OF years
was member of the firm of Taze-
we'll Printing Co. Some months ago
he severed his connection with the
printing company, and entered
Roanoke Business College, where he
was stricken with the sickness which
terminated in his death. He died on
Friday morning about 8 80 o'clock in
the Virginia hospital, where he had
been taken several weeks previous.
The remains were brought TO Taze-
well on special train from Blue
field Friday night, and taken to his
home of his parents here, where
faithful and loving vigil was kept
by committees from his secret orders
until Sunday morning, when the
burial took place.
The deceased is survived by his
mother and father, Major and Mrs.
a. \ 1cONSh bMO oASbSiS, Mis-. w.
G. O'Brien, of West Virginia, and
Miss Ella Bowen, of Tazewell, and
one brother, Captain Reese I. Bowen,
of Bluefield.
During his illness at the Roanoke
hospital some members of his family
were constantly at his side, and his
mother and sisters were present at
the last.
The Roanoke Times in its issue of
last Saturday, contained the follow
ing regarding the death of Mr..
Bowen:
1.-The deceased possessed many
admirable traits of character, with
Il warm heart and tender sypmathy
for all whom he knew, and was
esteemed and admired by those who
knew him. His passing away has
cast a gloom over his family, his as
sociates and his friends. In the city
he had many friends, and all will re-
ceive the announcement of his death
with profound sorrow. His family
have the sympathy of hundreds in
this hour of sorrow.'