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Bessie Mae <I>Bowden</I> Abernathy

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Bessie Mae Bowden Abernathy

Birth
Dean, Carroll County, Arkansas, USA
Death
3 Nov 1993 (aged 91)
Arnold, Jefferson County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 5 Lot 72 Space 5
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Bessie M. Abernathy

Funeral service for Bessie Mae Abernathy of Arnold will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Jimmie Dace will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park.


Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today.


Abernathy, 91, died Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1993, at Woodland Manor in Arnold.


She was born July 7, 1902, in Dean, Ark., daughter of Wiley G. and Frankie A, Meurer Bowden. She and Roscoe Abernathy were married in 1944 in Cape Girardeau. He died Feb. 10, 1987.


Abernathy had worked at Brown Shoe Co. here. She was a former member of Maple Avenue United Methodist Church and Sunday School teacher.


Survivors include a sister, Gladys Hanebrink of St. Louis: two brothers, Warren Bowden of St. Louis, and Winford Bowden of New Jersey.


Interred 6 Nov 1993

She was preceded in death by two brothers and a sister.


Southeast Missourian Nov 5, 1993

Bessie M. Abernathy

Funeral service for Bessie Mae Abernathy of Arnold will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Jimmie Dace will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park.


Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today.


Abernathy, 91, died Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1993, at Woodland Manor in Arnold.


She was born July 7, 1902, in Dean, Ark., daughter of Wiley G. and Frankie A, Meurer Bowden. She and Roscoe Abernathy were married in 1944 in Cape Girardeau. He died Feb. 10, 1987.


Abernathy had worked at Brown Shoe Co. here. She was a former member of Maple Avenue United Methodist Church and Sunday School teacher.


Survivors include a sister, Gladys Hanebrink of St. Louis: two brothers, Warren Bowden of St. Louis, and Winford Bowden of New Jersey.


Interred 6 Nov 1993

She was preceded in death by two brothers and a sister.


Southeast Missourian Nov 5, 1993



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  • Created by: John Hinkle
  • Added: Aug 1, 2006
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15115088/bessie_mae-abernathy: accessed ), memorial page for Bessie Mae Bowden Abernathy (7 Jul 1902–3 Nov 1993), Find a Grave Memorial ID 15115088, citing Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; Maintained by John Hinkle (contributor 46517129).