Opel Roy COWDEN
1898 - 1955 (57 years)
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Name Opel Roy COWDEN [1] Born 4 Feb 1898 Cigar Colony, Washita, Oklahoma, USA 
[1] Gender Male Census 9 Jan 1920 Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA [2] 1920 US Federal - in the Amzia Cowden household. Enumerated were Amzia head male white 60 married IL-IL-IL Team Track Clerk Railroad | Della wife female white 44 married TX-OH-TX | Alva son male white 26 single OK-IL-TX Check Clerk Railroad | Opal son male white 22 single OK-IL-TX Operator Telgraphy | Earl son male white 19 single OK-IL-TX Check Clerk Railroad | Ila daughter female white 16 single OK-IL-TX
Census 2 Apr 1930 Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA [3] 1930 US Federal - in the Opal R Cowden household. Enumerated were Opal R head male white 32 married first at 27 OK-Unk-Unk Telegrapher Railroad | Esther M wife female white 23 married first at 19 MO-MO-OH | Betty J daughter female wthie 2 3/12 single MO-OK-MO
Died 22 Apr 1955 Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, USA Obituary 24 Apr 1955 Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, USA [4] Idaho State Journal - Opel R. Cowden
Opel R. Cowden, 58, of ?23 West Clark, died in a local hospital early Friday morning after a short illness.
He was employed as a telegraph operator for the Union Pacific since 1936, in Pocatello, coming here from Kansas City, Mo.
He was born February 4, 1898, in El Reno, Okla., the son of Ira and Della Cowden. He attended schools in Oklahoma, later moving to Kansas City, where he started working for the Rock Island railroad. For a number of years he worked out of the city, in Bancroft, Sun Valley, American Falls and McCammon.
He was a member of the Methodist church and the Order of Railway Telegraphers 36. He served overseas in World War I, with the Army.
Survivors are his widow, Ester Scheutz Cowden, two daughters, Mrs. Robert Long of Pocatello 250 Park, and Mrs. LaMarr Muir of Monterey, Cal.; two grandchildren; three brothers and two sisters: Earl of Ordway, Cal.; Al and Clarence of Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. W. E. Meek of Kansas City, and Mrs. Harry Moller of Ludington, Mich.
Funeral services will be tomorrow at 11 a.m. in the Downard chapel with the Rev. Harry L. Starbuck of the First Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in Mountainview cemetery.
Buried 25 Apr 1955 Mountain View Cemetery, Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, USA Address:
Mountain View Cemetery
Pocatello, IdahoPerson ID I2895 Brenda's Branches Last Modified 28 Jul 2021
Father Amzia Alexander COWDEN, b. 28 Mar 1857, Carlinville, Macoupin, Illinois, USA , d. 13 Feb 1929, El Reno, Canadian, Oklahoma, USA (Age 71 years) Mother Sarah Della KOONTZ, b. 28 Jun 1875, Black Jack Grove, Hopkins, Texas, USA , d. 25 Jul 1958, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, USA (Age 83 years) Married 19 Oct 1890 Ardmore, Pickens, Chickasaw Nation Family ID F1050 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Ester Mae SCHUETZ, b. 29 Apr 1906, Cameron, Clinton, Missouri, USA , d. 7 Dec 1978 (Age 72 years) Married 2 Dec 1925 , Jackson, Missouri, USA [5] Children 1. Betty Jean COWDEN, Long, b. 22 Aug 1927, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA , d. 24 Aug 2013, Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, USA (Age 86 years)2. Dolores Ruth COWDEN, Muir Last Modified 15 Feb 2021 Family ID F5306 Group Sheet | Family Chart
