Extracted from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Monday, April 26, 1965

S. O. Sowers, 63

Samuel Otis Sowers, 63, of Dry Prong died in an Alexandria hospital at 8:45 a.m. today.

Remains are at Hixson Bros. Funeral Home in Alexandria. Services will be held in the funeral home chapel. Other arrangements are incomplete.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ruth Jordan Sowers; three daughters, Mrs. Betty Pierce of Beaufort, S. C., Mrs. Sherrill Mancil of Columbia and Miss Velma Sowers of New Orleans; his mother, Mrs. Izella H. Sowers of Lecompte; three sisters, Miss Ona Mae Sowers of Monroe, Mrs. Frank Fox of Lecompte and Mrs. Fred Estes of Jackson, Miss. and six grandchildren.