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.
Tombstone reads: CA S SGT 830 ENGR AVN BN WWII.
Events
Birth | 1 Mar 1920 | Ontario, San Bernardino Co., California | |||
Marriage | Abt 1941 | Lois Elaine Gillespie | |||
Death | 4 Dec 1972 | Bakersfield, Kern Co., California | |||
Burial | Union Cemetery, Bakersfield, Kern Co., California |
Families
Spouse | Lois Elaine Gillespie (1921 - 1973) |
Child | Herbert "Herb" Guy Cowan (1942 - 2016) |
Child | Pamela Marie Cowan (1946 - ) |
Child | David Alan Cowan (1947 - ) |
Child | Rebecca Jean Cowan (1948 - 2003) |
Child | Stephen Dale Cowan (1952 - 2010) |
Father | Walker Roscoe Cowan (1890 - 1985) |
Mother | Minnie Ethel Hughes (1892 - 1985) |
Sibling | Gladys Bertha Cowan (1911 - 2006) |
Sibling | Velma Bessie Cowan (1913 - 2000) |
Sibling | Troy Raymond Cowan (1915 - 1973) |
Sibling | Edna Clair Cowan (1917 - 1999) |
Sibling | Maxine Beatrice Cowan (1922 - ) |
Sibling | Lee Roy Cowan (1927 - 2012) |
Sibling | Ronald Roscoe Cowan (1935 - ) |
Endnotes
1. Research of Janice Mularky.
2. California Death Index.
3. Social Security Death Index.
4. U. S. Gen Web Site.