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Ada M. Cowles, 83, a former Baker City resident, died January 9, 1999, at St. Louis, Mo.
Private vault interment will be at Mount Hope Cemetery.
Mrs. Cowles was born Feb. 13, 1915, at High Valley to Frank Leslie and Elva Virgie Ross Burford. She married Charles C. Cowles in Cove on December 31, 1936, and moved to Baker City in 1949.
Mrs. Cowles was a homemaker and had lived in Missouri for the past 15 years.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and a son.
Survivors include her niece, Margaret Shinoki of California: a nephew, Leslie Connell of Portland; and a great-niece, Amy Fae Shinoki.
Memorial Contributions ay be made to a charity of one's choice through the Coles-Strommer-Monroe Funeral Home, 1950 Place St., Baker City, OR 97814.
Charles Clem Cowles, 70, of 2225 14th St., Baker, died at his home Friday following a sudden illness.
Funeral is Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. at Beatty Chapel, with the Rev. Marvin Carr of the First Christian Church and Brother Robert W. Maxwell of Baker Masonic Lodge No. 47 A.F. and A.M. officiating. Interment will follow at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Cowles was born April 4, 1906 to Charles and Jessie A. Beecher Cowles in Huntington. He received his education in Troutdale and as a young man fired on a steam ship for the Shaver Navigation Co. on the Columbia River. He later moved to Cove where he farmed and married Ada Burford Dec. 31, 1936. They farmed in the Alicel area for a number of years.
In 1949, they moved to Baker where he was employed by Burnt River Lumber Co. before he began working for Union Pacific Railroad. He was employed there for 23 years and in 1971 retired from the railroad. He was a member of the Cove Masonic Lodge No. 91 A.F. amd A.M., Baker York Rite Bodies, Al Kader Temple and the Baker Shriners.
Survivors include his wife, Ada Cowles, Baker; son Gordon Cowles, Portland; many nieces, nephews and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents and three sisters.
The Family suggests contributions to the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children in memoriam. Contributions may be given at Beatty Chapel.
Mrs. Clara Cowles aged eighty-five years, died Monday morning at the home of her daughter Mrs. Robert Clark, four miles east of North Powder. Mrs. Cowles was born in Syracuse, N.Y., but has been a resident of this section many years. The funeral services were held at the home Wednesday morning conducted by Rev. G.R. Archer. The body was laid to rest in the city cemetery.
At Centerville, Washington, June 7, 1899, at the residence of her aunt, Mrs. Smith, Miss Maudetta Cowles of this place. Miss Cowles was born in Auxvasse(?), Callaway Co. Missouri, on March 21, 1877, and was twenty-two years, two months and nineteen days of age at the time of her death.
She was the daughter of N.P. and Sarah Cowles. Her mother died when Maudetta was at the tender age of ten years and shortly afterwards she came to Oregon and made her home with her uncles and aunts Mr. and Mrs. E.P. McDaniel and Mr. and Mrs. John Smith.
For some years she had been in poor health and on April 1st went to Centerville on a visit to her mother's sisters and brothers, hoping to derive benefit from change of air and scenery. But her sickness increased and at the end of six weeks quick consumption seized upon her frail form and notwithstanding the unceasing and loving care of her relatives and the untiring efforts of her medical attendants, grim death claimed this lovely flower and her sweet and gentle spirit winged its way to God who gave it.
Her remains were accompanied to Cove by her uncle, Mr. McKlip, her sorrowing friends meeting them at Union. The Impressive and solemn service of the Episcopal church was read at the residence of E.P. McDaniel in the presence of a large concourse of friends by Rev. H. Harris D.D. Rector of the Church of the Ascension, after which the remains were laid to rest in the family lot in Roseridge Cemetry. Maudetta leaves to mourn her loss a beloved father, three brothers, a number of near relatives and a host of friends.
"Dearest Sister, thou hast left us
And they loss we deeply feel
But 'tis God who hath bereft us
He will all our sorrows heal."
"She is not dead but sleepeth
Safe on her Saviour's breast.
We may not wish her here again,
Mandetta is at rest."
A Friend
Cove Ledger Thursday June 15, 1899