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Obituary - Mrs. Mary Ellen Cowan The Hutchinson News (September 17, 1960)
Nickerson. Ninety-two year old Mrs. Mary Ellen Cowan died Friday, afternoon in her Nickerson home leaving 99 direct descendants.
She was born August 10, 1868, near Elmdale, and was married there November 4, 1884 to Cyrus Cowan. Five years later they moved to Arkansas City, Kansas and later left for Newkirk, Oklahoma when the Oklahoma Strip opened. In 1921, after several years in Topeka, Meade and Missouri, they made their home in Nickerson, where Mr. Cowan died in 1950.
Surving Mrs. Cowan, who had suffered a long illness, are three daughters, Mrs. Ethel Jackson and Mrs. Lloyd Tener, both of Fresno, California, and Mrs. Wallace Chambers, Nickerson; four sons, Presley of Wichita, Dennis of Clyde, Ferrel of Manhattan and Glen of Harve, Montana; 29 gradchildren, 53 great grandchildren and 10 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be a 2 p.m. Monday in Nickerson Methodist Church to which Mrs. Cowan belonged, with Rev. Leslie M. Heisz officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetary. Friends may call at Lamb Chapel from 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday.

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