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Wenona “Nona” Arthur Jowell

3 Oct 1889 – 24 Sep 1979

Birth	3 Oct 1889
Death	24 Sep 1979
Cemetery	West Park Cemetery Hereford , Deaf Smith County , Texas , USA
Added by	Mary(Coggin)Russell on 08 Dec 2014
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113823646

Bio

Pioneer Woman Dies Mrs. Wenona Arthur Jowell, who came to Deaf Smith County in a covered wagon when she was 12 years old, died Monday afternoon in Central Plains Regional Hospital at Plainview. She was 89. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Christian Church with the Rev. Mack McCarter, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in West Park Cemetery under direction of Gililland-Watson Funeral Home. Born Oct. 3, 1889 in Midlothian, "Nona" Arthur came here in 1900 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.P. Arthur, who operated several local meat markets and was the first tax assessor after the move to the new courthouse in 1910. She married Charley Jowell, another member of a pioneer family, in November 1911. He died in 1931. Mrs. Jowell was a longtime member of First Christian Church. She was a homemaker. Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Lynn Hooper of Plainview and Mrs. Anita Gentry of Clovis, N.M.; a son, Jerry Jowell of Clovis; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Mrs. Jowell was preceded in death by a son, Charles Arthur, who died in 19660. (Published in The Hereford Brand, 78th Year, No. 60, Hereford, Texas, Tuesday, September 25, 1979, Page 1)

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Family

Parents

• Chester Phillip Arthur 1859–1940
• Mary C. Snider Arthur 1868–1912

Spouse

• Charles W. Jowell 1884–1931 FaG

Siblings

• Mary Wilma Arthur Webb 1916–2001 FaG

Children

• Charles Arthur Jowell 1912–1960 FaG
• Mary Lynn Jowell Hooper 1913–1982 FaG
• Anita Jowell Gentry 1915–2011 FaG
• Jerry Phillip Jowell 1919–1984 FaG

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