AMarch 17 1960
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Thursday, March 17, 1960
Bowers Services
Funeral services for Paul L. Bowers, 65, of 1242 Dennison View Avenue, Westwood, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the J. Herbert Hershberger and Sons Funeral Home, Nobel Avenue, Crafton. Mr. Bowers died Monday at Mercy Hospital. He was with the Internal Revenue Bureau here for 17 years, retiring last year. Mr. Bowers was a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association, was one-time chess champion of Western Pennsylvania, and a pilot during World War I. He was a member of the American Legion and the Crafton Heights United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Bowers is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marcella Loeffler Bowers; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dodds Bowers of Crafton; a daughter, Mrs. David Tessmer; a son, Captain Howard S. Bowers, serving with the Air Force in Florida; three sisters, R. K. McCurdy, of Pittsburgh; Mrs. John Borgman and Mrs. Harry C. Schaeffer, of Birmingham, Mich.; and seven grandchildren. Burial will be in United Cemetery, West View.
