CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Freeman Fowler of Charleston will be held at 2 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. The Rev. Gerald Collier will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery.
Fowler, 84, died Thursday, Feb. 29, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.
He was born Oct. 27, 1911, in Mississippi County, son of William Jackson and Ella Sipp Fowler. He and Lindell Berry were married in 1937.
Fowler retired in 1977 as an engineer with Canal Barge Co.
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Patricia Crosier of Barlow, Ky., Teresa Burton of Marion, Ark.; four grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two sons, three brothers and four sisters.
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