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The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, OK 
August 25, 1954

J. R. Bowen, 74, died Monday in a Norman rest home. Primrose funeral home in charge, burial at Norman IOOF cemetery.

Bowen was born Dec. 24, 1880 in Dixon County, TN. He moved to OK in 1909, settling in Hughes Co. and in 1924 moved to Norman.

Survivors include two brothers from Bakersfield, CA., Tiner and Lowery Bowen; also a sister from Bakersfield, Mrs. Olen McBride; and two other sisters, Mrs. Della Grizzle, Holdenville and Mrs. Louie Dugan, Nashville, TN.

There are seven children, Elbert and Wayne Bowen; OK.; Cecil Bowen, CA.; Bobby Bowen, ILL.; Mrs. Ed Warton, OK; Mrs. C. E. Robinson, OK and Mrs. T. L Manning, TX; 13 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Source: OKBits [Dec 2001]