Bowlin, Mrs. John Newton  (Bowlin, Bessie) (appeared in newwspaper - 15
December, 1936)
    Mrs. Bessie Bowlin, 66, died December 12th at the Menorah hospital
in Kansas City, Mo.  She had lived in Kansas City ten years and was
making her home at 206 S Fourteenth street, Kansas City, Kansas, at the
time of her departure.
    Early in life she was united in marriage to John Newton Bowlin, and
for many years they lived on a farm near Bagnell, in the vicinity of
what is now Pruitt's
Station, where they reared a family.  After his death she moved to
Kansas City. She was a member of Oakland Park Baptist church in that
city.
    She is survived by six daughters--Mrs. Fred Robinson of Ulman;  Mrs.
Olin  Mabe and Mrs. Pearl Brown of the home;  Mrs. Nellie Eubanks and
Mrs. Fern Phillips of Long Beach, California;  Mrs. Eunice Simms of the
home; and five sons--Oliver H. Bowlin;  Roy O Bowlin; Roscoe G. Bowlin;
Gradon O Bowlin; and Gordon Bowlin of Long Beach, California.  She is
also mourned by three sisters, one brother, 20 grandchildren and three
great grandchildren.
    The body was brought back to Miller County to the old home community
and funeral services were held Wednesday, the 16th, at the Henderson
Cemetery where she was laid to rest in the presence of a host of
relatives and friends.  All the children, eleven in number, were
present.