MRS. JOHN M. TOLLIVER
DIED EARLY MONDAY
Funeral Services Held Tuesday Afternoon At Methodist Church
Funeral services for Mrs. John Tolliver were held the afternoon at
the Methodist church. Conducted by the Rev Val B Strader. Mrs.
Tolliver died early Monday morning Interment was in the Versailles cemetery
Harriet Rosetta Bowline was born in Miller County Mo., May 3,1884,
the daughter of Betty, Bird and Andrew Jackson Bowline. When she
was two years old, her mother passed and she then made her home with her
elder sister until her father married a second time Sarah Johnston.
She then turned to her father's home to live At an early age 5he as united
with the Baptist Church, and remained true to that faith as long a~ she
Ivied January 3. 190J', she was united in marriage to John Tolliver and
to this union four children were born William Orville. Lena Alice. Cleo
and Melvin Franklin.
Besides her husband and children, she leaves to mourn her. One sister.
Sophia Jane six brothers, Oliver George, William Y. Harrison and one half
brother Paul Bunyan Bowline, two grandchildren. Donna and Shirley
Tolliver and many other relatives and friends.
To know Harriet Tolliver was to love A kind and gentle Mother, who
asked nothing more of life than to serve her family and friends.
She was never too busy or too tired to stop and listen to some others sorrows,
and hers was the hand that helped to guide many through trials and problems.
She was always ready to help those in need. She built for herself
a place in the hearts that can never be filed. A life so lived needs
no obituary.
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