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Flora Evans Bowers - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post March 14, 1969

Elderly Teacher Dies At Tallulah, Rites Friday

Tallulah, La. -- Mrs. Flora Evans Bowers, 94, died this morning at 7:30 at a local hospital after 
a long illness.

She was a native of Bastrop and had lived in Madison Parish for eighty years. She was a member of the 
Episcopal Church and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Services will be at 2 p. m. Friday with the Rev. Joseph Harrison of the Episcopal Church officiating. 
Burial will be in Silver Cross Cemetery.

The body will be at the residence until the hour of the funeral. Crothers Funeral Home is in charge.

She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Hugh Montgomery; two grandchildren and three great grandchildren; sisters, 
Mrs. George W. Webb and Mrs. T. P. Kell, both of Tallulah; and Mrs. W. B. R. Mitchell of Transylvania; 
a brother, Dr. William K Evans of Dallas.

From Tallulah Madison Journal March 20, 1969

Services For Mrs. Flora Bowers Held On Friday

Mrs. Flora Flowers Evans Bowers, widow of the late William Bogart Bowers, and a member of a prominent 
Louisiana family died early Thursday, March 13, at the Madison Parish Hospital. She was 94 years old.

Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Friday at Trinity Episcopal Church with interment in Silver Cross 
Cemetery, Tallulah, the Reverend Joseph R. Harrison officiating.

Pallbearers were Dr. George M. Webb and James R. Garrett, of Tallulah; Judge Edward Lee Gladney and 
Julian Gladney, of Bastrop; David M. Evans, Jr. and John Parker Evans of Baton Rouge; William Barry Mitchell 
of Lake Providence, Dr. James Guerriero of Vicksburg, Miss.

The daughter of the late David Manderville Evans and Flora Flowers Kelley Evans of Bastrop, La., Mrs. Bowers 
came to Madison Parish in the 1890's visiting her uncle, Dr. William D. Kelley, in Tallulah and teaching at 
Milliken's Bend, then a river landing town. In 1900 she was married to the late William Bogart Bowers of Araby 
Plantation. She lived at Araby, later moving to Cypress Grove Plantation in Tensas Parish before the death there 
of Mr. Bowers. As a young widow, she studied nursing, becoming a registered nurse and serving at the Vicksburg 
Infirmary and later, until her retirement, she was in charge of the infirmary at the Louisiana State Normal College. 

During the past many years in Tallulah her hobby and talent was in her flower garden, creating floral beauty 
wherever she went. She was an active member of Trinity Guild of Trinity Episcopal Church, was a former member of 
the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Madison Parish Garden Club.

She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Thomas Hugh Montgomery, Jr.; a granddaughter, Mrs. King B. Trieschmann, 
Lake Providence, and a grandson, Thomas Hugh Montgomery, III of Menlo Park, California; three grandchildren; one 
brother, Dr. William Kelley Evans of Dallas, Texas, and three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Phares Kell and Mrs. 
George W. Webb of Tallulah and Mrs. W. B. R. Mitchell of Transylvania.