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Show Thursday, June 19, 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 17 im to avoid being bamboozled. Dr. Marvin Folkertsma What a difference a century cen-tury makes, specifically a turn of the century. Shortly after the 19th century ended, end-ed, the United States had a president who was the real deal, whose honesty, sincerity sincer-ity and courage would be Loiter Clair Bowen t dfl&$E38t Our beloved husband, father, grandfather, greatgrandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great great-great -grandfather, Lofter Clair Bowen, passed away at home, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, after 81 years of a happy and fulfilling life. He was born in Spanish Fork, Utah, March 28, 1927, to William Jones and Gudrun DenaBjarnason Bowen. He was the youngest of nine children: Ellen (Isaac) Taylor, Lois (Sherman) Christensen, Ray (Mae), Donna (Willard) Wood, Ruth (Harold) Schauer, Dora (Pete Brimhall and Mont) Davis, David (Fairy) Bowen, Allen "Doc" (Jean) Bowen. He attended schools in Spanish Fork and graduated gradu-ated from high school 1945. Clair served honorably in the U. S. Navy 194546, as a hospital corpsman during WWII, at Oakland California Cali-fornia and Corpus Christi Texas. He married his "dream girl," Jean Boyer of Springville, on December 27, 1947. They were sealed for eternity in the Salt Lake Temple August, 1958. They became parents of: Susan (Henry) Reynolds, Mary Ann (deceased), Wm. Michael Mi-chael (Debbie) Bowen, Nancy Nan-cy (Max) Perkins, Dena (Reed) Nielsen; with twelve grandchildren: Tyler, Alex, David, Caleb and Wyatt Perkins; Amy (Christofer) Hickman, Charles (deceased), William, Wil-liam, and Joseph (Lisa) Nielsen; Sarah and Audrey Au-drey Bowen; and Jennifer (Jacob) Tanner; ten greatgrandchildren: great-grandchildren: Chaelisa Nielsen, Ambyr, Brody, Rainy and Bridget Hickman; Hick-man; Sophia and Matalynn Perkins; Aiden Perkins; and Michael and Simeon Tanner; one great-great-grandson, Charles Nielsen (our 5th generation baby). In 1947, he enlisted in the U S Army National Guard, 145th Field Artillery Battalion Bat-talion Battery C. Stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas, and Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, during dur-ing the Korean War. He was honorably discharged with medical release after eight years of service to his country. He graduated from BYU with a BS in accounting ac-counting and business administration. ad-ministration. Clair was an active OiUfifif fetMMS o .ttm-it- pni'i.ii i hi wiiiiiiijw.iLT.''rTra"iwi'ii'"'r r-'r " 1 . Y"i,j , vtxxi-ti-- i ...... miimmmmm mn urr: 1 nPAllH Ull,, HI 1 mrm a ft m t i in 1 1 rf vi i i challenged only by those willing to take a chop in the jaws delivered personally person-ally by the commander in chief himself. It was a time when reference to the "Fantastic "Fan-tastic Four" meant school children's appreciative knowledge of any quartet ft' if. '.. - ' '1 : 'y-yJ Lofter Clair Bowen 1lSfililP i " Lofter Clair Bowen member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in many callings: Stake Sunday School Secretary, Ward Sunday School Superin-tendency, Superin-tendency, Elders' Quorum President, Priest Quorum Advisor, Home Teacher, Ward Clerk, Bishopric 1st Counselor, Activities Chairman, High Priest Group Leader, Temple Worker and served with many Bishops as Ward Financial Clerk. His pride and joy was his family and spending time with them. ! He was their role model, example and hero; showing show-ing : loving kindness, patience pa-tience and generosity to everyone. He loved his farm in Spanish Fork and continued contin-ued gardening his whole life. He loved the Nayy and loved his country, enjoyed fishing and hunting with his family and friends, history his-tory of all kinds and spent hours researching family history and doing temple work. He was a big BYU fan and movie buff. His wonderful sense of humor hu-mor and life stories kept everyone entertained and happy. Preceding him in death were his parents and siblings sib-lings (spouses), one daughter daugh-ter and one grandson. He is survived by his loving wife and family and two sisters-in-law, Jean (Doc) Bowen and Fairy (David) Bowen; and many nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Monday, June 16, in Springville, Utah. Burial was in the Springville Evergreen Ev-ergreen Cemetery with Military Rights. Condolences may be sent at www.wheelermortuary. com. IIJMPAtfi z VisM U-Hsiicii I iijif il that included Hawthorne, Poe, Dickenson, Emerson, Whitman, Crane, Melville, Twain, Stowe, Howells, and many others. Most especially, the equivalent equiv-alent to reality TV meant that you or your parents had survived Shiloh, Gettysburg, Gettys-burg, Antietam, Richmond, or any of the scores of sites leveled by the first, horrific manifestation of modern war, Sherman's March Heroes were unmistakable. unmistak-able. Youngsters knew that the republic survived its early days by the strength of character of its founding fathers, particularly George Washington, the "closest thing to a self-evident truth" in American politics, according ac-cording to author Joseph Ellis. You marveled at the intellectual honesty of Alexander Alex-ander Hamilton, whose brilliant bril-liant first Federalist Paper warned about how arguments argu-ments on both sides of the ratification debates could be compromised by clever rationalizations ra-tionalizations of individual desires. In short, we're are all affected af-fected and often blinded by the perils of selfishness and egotism, regardless of our best efforts to squelch these demons of human nature. Further, young and old stood in awe of Abraham Lincoln's eloquent wisdom, as expressed, for instance, in the Gettysburg Address, his two inaugural speeches, and an earlier address he gave at the Young Man's Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois. Il-linois. "With the catching end the pleasures of the chase," Lincoln said, warning about the dangers of ambitious men, who would be as willing will-ing to apply their skills to destroy a republic as-much as to build it up. For skeptics, no one could rival Oliver Wendell Holmes,. Hol-mes,. Jr., whose cynicism about human nature made Mark Twain seem like an optimist. Nihilists could only admire Holmes's disdain for those who "seem to believe in spme form of the absolute," abso-lute," making him wonder if he "lived on a lower plane," or if instead "they are churning churn-ing the void in the hope of making cheese." Every age has its curmudgeons. But they were wise curmudgeons, curmud-geons, and we all admired Better gas mileage NAPSI- Better driving habits can help get the most out of each gallon of gasoline. With gasoline gaso-line around $4 per gallon, getting 20 percent better mileage is like getting a discount of $.80 a gallon, or saving $12 on each 15-gallon 15-gallon tank. Here are a few tips from the nonprofit National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE): Chill out. Aggressive driving can waste one-third one-third of the fuel dollar in highway driving. Simple speeding can cost seven to 23 percent of a fuel dollar. Use the cruise. 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Spare time is invested in "co-curricular activities" (whatever that means), while role models are confined to the latest entry in American Idol or whoever succeeds in the most preposterous task in a televised contest about nothing. noth-ing. The question is whether antidotes exist for such flim-flammery. flim-flammery. Yes, they do, but with a curmudgeon alert: most readers will not like what comes next. First, join the military, any branch, for at least four years, and learn what real courage, honor, and duty are all about. Second, Sec-ond, since ignorance breeds . gullibility, read every book cited by Bloom. Then read Walter McDougall and every ev-ery book he cites in his three-volume three-volume history of America (third volume forthcoming). Third, start a movement to raise the voting age to 25, soldiers excepted. Fourth, dismiss 90 percent of what you hear on the news as the shameless propaganda that it is. Fifth, reject out of hand ' the superstitions of the age. For example, if someone asks you what you're doing for the environment, say: "Nothing. The environment exists for me, not me for it. That is my only interest in preserving it." Or, if someone some-one wants to "celebrate our diversity," the multicultural-ism multicultural-ism cult, then dismiss that person as a moral illiterate, because anyone with any sense knows that cultures differ tremendously in their the ride. Every extra hundred hun-dred pounds of cargo can cost one percent of mileage. mile-age. Pack light. If going on an auto vacation, pack as lightly as possible and avoid using a rooftop cargo car-go holder because of the increased air drag. Avoid Idling. Reconsider use of drive-up windows at banks and fast-food restaurants. If waiting for friends, shut off the engine. en-gine. ASE was founded to improve im-prove the quality off automotive auto-motive service and repair through the voluntary testing and certification of automotive technicians. 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