Leonard McGowan

The Abilene Reporter-News, February 17, 1965, page 6-A

Leonard McGowan Rites Thursday

SWEETWATER -- Funeral services for Leonard McGowan, 70, carpenter and building contractor,  will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Cate-Spencer Funeral Home Chapel, with burial in Sweetwater Cemetery.

Mr. McGowan died at 12:15 p.m. at Hedrick Memorial Hospital in Abilene after a 10-day Illness.

He was born July 25, 1884 at Goldthwaite and married Jewel M. Godfrey in Eskota in 1914.  They observed their golden wedding last Dec., 26.  They had lived in Sweetwater since 1926.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Edward, of Dallas; three grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. F. B. Anderson of Sweetwater.