Extracted from The Laurel Leader-Call (Laurel, MS)
Monday, April 9, 1962

MRS. C. L. ROWELL

A resident of Ovett, Mrs. C. L. Rowell, 77, died at her home Monday morning.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday 2:30 p.m., from Ovett Baptist Church, of which she was a member, with the Rev. Homer George and the Rev. Max Parker officiating. Burial will be in Brown Cemetery.

Mrs. Rowell leaves three daughters: Mrs. Eva Combest, Pachuta; Mrs. Ruth Roper, Louisville, Miss., and Mrs. Charlie Opal Young, Ovett; three sons, Oddis Rowell, Meridian; Lester Rowell, Yazoo City, and Otha Rowell, Wiggins; two sisters, Mrs. W. G. Carlisle, Ovett, and Mrs. Eunice Zittrow [sic Zitterow], Minneapolis, Minn., and 17 grandchildren.

Thompson Funeral Home is in charge.