Individual Details

Herbert Dale Cowan

(1 Mar 1920 - 4 Dec 1972)

Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California, Tuesday, December 5, 1972, Page 29, Col. 3: Cowan, Herbert Dale---Services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Mish Funeral Home-Oildale for Herbert Dale Cowan, 52,1606 Lisle. Elder Joseph Marshall of the Seventh-day Adventist Church will officiate and interment will follow in Union Cemetery. Mr. Cowan was a native of Ontario and had lived in Kern County 45 years; was a production foreman for the M. H. Whittier Corp. for 26 years; a graduate of Bakersfield High School and a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. Survivors include his widow, Louise [Lois] Cowan; 3 sons, Herbert of Pacifica and David and Steven of Bakersfield; 2 daughters, Mrs. Pamela Ritschel of Alameda and Miss Becky Cowan of Bakersfield; 3 brothers, Troy of Bakersfield, LeRoy of Torrance and Ronald of Anaheim, 4 sisters, Mrs. Gladys Paul of Oildale, Mrs. Velma Crilley of Buena Park, Mrs. Edna Chambers of Saugus and Mrs. Maxine Knox of Bakersfield; and 4 grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Bill Kennedy, Boyde McNeal, Bill Reese, Ken Cossel, David Jones and Caroll Rethell.

Tombstone reads: CA S SGT 830 ENGR AVN BN WWII.

Events

Birth1 Mar 1920Ontario, San Bernardino Co., California
MarriageAbt 1941Lois Elaine Gillespie
Death4 Dec 1972Bakersfield, Kern Co., California
BurialUnion Cemetery, Bakersfield, Kern Co., California

Families

SpouseLois Elaine Gillespie (1921 - 1973)
ChildHerbert "Herb" Guy Cowan (1942 - 2016)
ChildPamela Marie Cowan (1946 - )
ChildDavid Alan Cowan (1947 - )
ChildRebecca Jean Cowan (1948 - 2003)
ChildStephen Dale Cowan (1952 - 2010)
FatherWalker Roscoe Cowan (1890 - 1985)
MotherMinnie Ethel Hughes (1892 - 1985)
SiblingGladys Bertha Cowan (1911 - 2006)
SiblingVelma Bessie Cowan (1913 - 2000)
SiblingTroy Raymond Cowan (1915 - 1973)
SiblingEdna Clair Cowan (1917 - 1999)
SiblingMaxine Beatrice Cowan (1922 - )
SiblingLee Roy Cowan (1927 - 2012)
SiblingRonald Roscoe Cowan (1935 - )

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