Wed, Mes Pt, Leos
Thelmer C. Fowler
Nov. 21, 1919-May 23, 2000

FLAT ROCK — Thelmer C.
Fowler, 80, of Flat Rock, a Sunday
school superintendent for First
American Baptist Church, died
Tuesday at Oakwood Skilled
Nursing Center, Trenton.

Friends may call from 1 to 8 p.m.
Thursday at Arthur Bobcean
Funeral Home, where services will
be held at 11 a.m. Friday. The Rev.
David W. Jones, pastor of
Emmanuel Baptist Church,
Carleton, will officiate. Burial will
be in Michigan Memorial Park,
Huron Township, under the aus-
pices of Downriver Honor Guard.

Born Nov. 21, 1919, in Monroe, he
was the son of Elwell and Pearl
(Rowelett) Fowler. He married Etta
L. Cain Aug. 21, 1940, in Bryan,
Ohio.

A locomotive crane operator for
Great Lakes Steel, Ecorse, he

retired in 1985 after 38 years of ser- |

vice.
He served as an airplane

mechanic in the Army Air Force |

during World War II.

A Flat Rock resident for 46 years,
he was a member of Gibraltar

Memorial Post 564, American —

Legion.
Surviving are his wife; a son,

Carl T. of Traverse City; two |

daughters, Cheryl Kocinski of

Sylvania, Ohio, and Susan Tomich |
of Rockwood; a brother, Lonnie of |
Monroe; two sisters, Ilene Mason of |

Pineville, Ky and Francis Nelson of

Monroe; six grandchildren, and |

five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a

brother, LeRoy.

Memorials may be made to

Kidney Foundation.