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The Edgerton Database |
Georgia Claire Edgerton, daughter of Lorenzo Dow and
Everett Brewen McDowell, son of George T. and Katherine (Brewen) McDowell.
Children:
The
following obituary for Mrs. Georgia Claire (Edgerton) McDowell was published
in the Quad City Times on Tuesday,
September 23, 1997 “ROCK ISLAND — Services for Clare E. McDowell, 87, of
3910 12th St., will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church,
Rock Island. The Rev. Tom Neufer
Emswiler will officiate. There is no visitation. Burial will be in
Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island. Mrs. McDowell died Sunday, Sept. 21, 1997, at Oak Glen
Home, Coal Valley, Ill. Hodgson Funeral Home Ltd., Rock Island, is in charge of
arrangements. She was employed as a teacher at Thomas Jefferson School,
Milan, Ill., for 20 years, retiring in 1975. Clare Edgerton was born March 22, 1910, in Truman, Ark.,
to Lorenzo Dow and Georgia May Edgerton. She married Everett B. McDowell on April 25,
1936, in Caruthersville, Mo. He died
Sept. 3, 1983. She received a bachelor's degree in 1969 from Augustana
College, Rock Island. She was a member of First United Methodist Church. She enjoyed nature, flower gardening, reading and writing
poetry. Memorials may be made to Thomas Jefferson School, Milan. Survivors include a daughter, Lila McDowell, Rock Island; a son and daughter-in-law, Everett E. and Sally McDowell, Lakewood, Colo.; grandchildren, Alexis McKnight, and Meghan and Scott McDowell; a sister, Rennie Edgerton, Rock Island; and a nephew, Dow Edgerton, Davenport.” |