Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Chester Clyde Bowen ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Chester Clyde Bowen
LAST NAME: Bowen FIRST NAME: Chester MIDDLE NAME: Clyde NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY: WWI
BORN: 17 Mar 1883 DIED: 27 Jan 1919 BURIED: 2 Feb 1919
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Woolen Mill Dyer
BIRTH PLACE:  Marion, Marion Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1919) #79 - Chester C. Bowen, male, single, occupation woolen mill dyer, b. 17 Mar 1883 in Marion, Oregon, d. 22 Jan 1919 in Salem, Oregon (920 Mill) at the age of 35 y's 10 m's 5 d's, name of father Owen Bowen (b. Ireland), maiden name of mother Nellie Crooks (b. Albany, Oregon), undertaker Rigdon, informant Lillian Bowen of 920 Mill St.
1910 OR CENSUS - Chester C. Bowen, age 27, occupation dyer at woolen mill, b. Oregon, is enumerated with father Owen E. Bowen, age 65, occupation gatekeeper for railroad, b. Ireland, and Ellen, age 58, b. Oregon, along with siblings Charles E., age 33, occupation shopman at sash & door factory, married 1 year, b. Oregon, Lillian E., age 28, b. Oregon, and Vera H., identified as daughter-in-law [of Owen], age 23, b. Idaho.
WWI DRAFT REGISTER - Chester Clyde Bowen, age 35, of 905 N. Church St., Salem,  b. 19 Mar 1883, occupation textile worker at Thomas Kay Woolen Mills, closed relative, Nellie Bowen, height - medium; build - medium; eyes - blue; hair - brown.
OBITUARY: 
BROWN [BOWEN]--Services at Cemetery
The body of Chester Brown [Bowen] will be laid to rest in the Odd Fellows cemetery tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock, other services having been conducted a week ago. The funeral was postponed on account of the weather. The military company at the woolen mill will attend in uniform, and the Woodmen and Rev. W.C. Kantner will have charge of the services. Mr. Bowen’s mother and sister will come from Portland for the funeral. 
Oregon Statesman 1 Feb 1919, 3:2
INSCRIPTION: 
BOWEN
(on curb)
SOURCES: 
LR 
LD
Rigdon Vol 8 #325 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1919) #79 
Saucy
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
1910 OR CENSUS  (Marion Co., Salem, ED 224, sheet 11B) 
OS 1 Feb 1919 3:2
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