Date of birth: 22 Dec 1886
Date of death: 07 Dec 1949

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Burial Information

Section 04 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 043A-04
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Birth: 22 Dec 1886 - Lexington, Holmes Co., MS
Death: 07 Dec 1949 - Greenwood, Leflore Co., MS
Marriage: 27 Jul 1910 - Holmes Co., MS
Burial: 08 Dec 1949

Obituary
J.W. Fowler Rites Held Thursday
James Whitfield Fowler, 63, supervisor of the Memphis division of the IC railroad in Greenwood since 1937, died Wednesday afternoon December 7, at 3:10 at the Greenwood Leflore hospital.

The well known railroad official was taken to the hospital in Greenwood Wednesday afternoon, December 7, about 12:30 p.m. He had been in poor health for a year.

Mr. Fowler was a native of Lexington and had been with the IC since 1902. He served as supervisor of the railroad at Tutwiler from 1919 to 1937, and had lived in Greenwood since 1937.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Besse Fincher Fowler; Greenwood; a daughter, Mrs. Ann J. Fox, Canton; a brother, Earl H. Fowler Lexington; and a sister, Mrs. J.J. Mace of Phoenix, Arizona.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at the First Methodist church in Greenwood with the Rev. N.J. Golding officiating. Burial was in Odd Fellows cemetery in Lexington.

Pallbearers were Scott Fowler, James Fowler, Weldon Fowler, W.H. Fincher, Jr., John Word, Rincher Word, V.O. Ingold and Jack Reid.

Honorary pallbearers were friends of the family and members of the Greenwood-Memphis division of the IC railroad.

Lexington Advertiser

Family Relations of James Whitfield Fowler

Parents:
Weldon W. Fowler
Rosa Stroud (Fowler) Malone

Siblings:
John Bryant Fowler
Ina Fowler Farabee
Alex E. Fowler
James Whitfield Fowler
Earl Hampton Fowler

Spouse:
Elizabeth Fincher (Sherman) Fowler

Children:
Ann Jeanette Fowler Fox

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