BOWERS, Leona - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Word was received in Hillsboro Monday morning of the death of Mrs. Leona C .

Bowers, 70, who died Sunday night  at 9:25 at the Addison Community hospital

in North Adams, Mich., where she was taken Saturday morning suffering from

pneumonia.  Her husband, Warren C. Bowers, is publisher of the North Adams

Advocate.

Mr. Bowers spent most of her life in Fountain county.  When they reside in

Hillsboro her husband was publisher of the Hillsboro Times and later w as a

publisher at Colfax and in California, before moving to Michigan.

She was born July 3 1880 in Indianapolis, the daughter of Henry C. and

Melissa McKensey Ellis.  On July 3 1900, she was married to Warren C.

Bowers.  The survivors include the husband; a son; two daughters, two

grandchildren, three great grandchildren and a sister Mr. Bertha Lyons, who

resides in California.  She was preceded in death by her parents, three

brothers and a daughter.

Funeral services were held on Tuesday at the North Adams Methodist church

and the body was brought to Hillsboro Wednesday with graveside services he ld

in Rose Hill cemetery at 3 p.m.