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Children of Urban and Margery (Bigelow) Bowes:
16C59.C421 David B. Bowes, b _____ ; d ______ ; m Judy ______ ;
16C59.C422 Margery Bowes, b _____ ; d ______ ; m _____ Dankin;
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. II page 288 child;
correspondence with family member and Bigelow Society historian/genealogist.
http://www.genealogyvault.net/bowes-bigelow/getperson.php?personID=I009&tree=Bowesetal
Notes:
MARGERY AND URBAN BOWES MEMORIAL GARTH, COLLEGE OF PREACHERS, WASHINGTON
NATIONAL CATHEDRAL
Following are notes to a service dedicating the Garth in Margery and Urban's
name, to be maintained in perpetuity by a trust set up by David B. Bowes
and R. J. Tofalo for that purpose:
NOTES FROM DAVID B. BOWES ABOUT URBAN AND MARGERY:
"Banyas [Urban, so called by his grandchildren, children
of David and Judy Bowes] was raised a Catholic but, as I've decided, he was
bound to be a research chemist and thus have a problem with transubstantiation
(Catholic belief that communion--Eucharist--wine actually turns into Christ's
blood.) Sure he had at least a question about ph! Gramma Marge [Urban's wife]
was sent around the world aboard the Penrith Castle by Nana in hopes she would
forget 'that Catholic.' [She danced with General McAruthur in the Phillipines
during this trip while visiting her childhood friend Mrs. Dean (Tub) Hudnut,
whose hubby was a career army officer.] Didn't work and Banyas became a genuine
favorite of his mother-in-law. He always thought children should take their
mother's religion and their father's politics. So he drove Margie and me
to Sunday school and church but never came in--except maybe for a quick peek
on Christmas Eve. The only reason the monsignor at St. Rose Catholic Church
down the street even knew Dad was nominally Catholic--they saw each other
regularly at village school board meetings--was because Cousin Vince wrote
him that fact. When the reporter gathering info for the obituary asked me
if St. Rose where the funeral was to be held was 'his parish,' I replied
that the deceased 'was a Catholic by heritage though not by current practice,
if that's not a distinction without a difference.' So it ran as it ran. When
at the funeral we saw Vince sitting up there in his monk's hood, mother
whispered, 'Oh no! If that's Vincent it means [the Bowes's] have come to
get Urb.' But he was buried in Ft. Meigs (protestant) Cemetery and at the
reception afterwards at 550 E. Front St., Vince and the Episcopal parson
from Toledo and I hoisted a few Canadian Mists on the rocks. Love, Dad"
A Service of Remembrance
In Memory of Margery B. Bowes and Urban E. Bowes
Friday, November 29, 2002 at 4:00 p.m.
College of Preachers GarthA Service of Remembrance
In Memory of Margery B. Bowes and Urban E. Bowes
Friday, November 29, 2002 at 4:00 p.m.
College of Preachers Garth
Welcome
[As we begin our service, we are thinking of:
Virginia and Martha and Bill and Suzanne and Max and Torrie who were unable
to be with us here today.]
Introductory Sentences of Scripture
None of us has life in himself,
And none becomes his own master when he dies.
For if we have life, we are alive in the Lord,
And if we die, we die in the Lord.
So then, whether we live or die,
We are the Lord?s possession.
God of grace and glory, we remember before you today Margery B. Bowes and
Urban E. Bowes. We thank you for giving them to us as parents, grandparents,
and friends to know and to love as companions on our earthly pilgrimage. In
this beautiful quiet garden that has been dedicated to you in their memory,
give us faith to see in death the gate of eternal life, so that in quiet confidence
we may continue our course on earth, until by your call we are reunited with
those who have gone before us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
A Prayer for the College of Preachers
O Lord Jesus Christ, who through your Apostle Saint Paul has taught us that
faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God: grant to your servants
in the College of Preachers so truly and effectually to preach the gospel
of your grace, that many may be brought to the knowledge of your truth, and
built up in the communion of your holy church, and so your name be glorified
and your kingdom enlarged; who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy
Spirit, one God, world with end.
Amen.
Readings
Sirach 44:1-15 Let us now praise famous men
Black Elk Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle
Everything the Power of the World does
is done in a circle. The sky is round,
and I have heard that the earth is round
like a ball, and so are all the stars.
The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
Birds make their nests in circles,
for theirs is the same religion as ours.
The sun comes forth and goes down again
in a circle. The moon does the same,
and both are round. Even the seasons
form a great circle in their changing,
and always come back again to where they were.
The life of man is a circle from childhood to childhood,
and so it is in everything where power moves.
Black Elk (1863-1950)
Remembrances
Benediction
Note:
Subject: Bigelow Society
photos and new info from Margery Dakin, the daughter
of Margery (Bigelow) and Urban Bowes..Thanks..................ROD
< rodbigelow@netzero.net > 
