Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-07 | Page 7 | Jos. Fowers, Sr. of Hooper Dies

I JOS POWERS FOWERS SR OF HOOPER DIES Secured Land By Helping Build Canal to That District Jo Joseph Fowers Powers Sr pioneer of Hooper died this morning at 15 o'clock at the residence of his daughter Mrs Irs Reta Griffin 2963 Porter Perter avenue a following a three months Illness of heart trouble He was born bom In fn Derbyshire Eng Eng- England land September 21 8 1860 1850 the son Ion tono of Jessie and Sarah Johnson I row Fow rowers ow era ers Ile He H left England Eiland with his hi tam tam- family Ily when 14 years year old and cam came to Utah He H drove a double yoke ot of oxen acro across t the te e plains The fam family am ily fly lived In Og Ogden for four tour years yean In ltd 1868 with his father and brothers broth broth- brothers brothers ers he went to work on the irrl irrl- irrl gallon Sallon canal which runs to 10 Hooper and received land U la Hooper In payment of ot his labor He then moved to Hooper where he had lived ever CT since On November 8 28 1877 77 he married Mary Olary Dormer who died In Hooper on September 2 1912 Mr rowers Fowers U sae na a hIgh hl priest and prominent worker In the theL 1 1 D S church and In 1894 filled tilleda a 1 mission mission to England lIe He Is survived b by one brother Franl J Powers l of ot Ogden one on els sis sis- sister ter ls-ter ter Mrs Irs Sarah Simpson of and the following children Joseph JosephA A John H II George Georgo Leslie G Few Fow Fow-cr Fow ere en Mrs Irs Lawrence Johnson Mrs George W SV Hunt all of Hooper and Ira Mra Henry L I L Griffin of ot Ogden J Funeral services Hill will bo be held on Sunday at 2 o'clock In the Hooper meeting house under the th direction of Bishop John D Hooper The Tho body may be viewed lowed at the Und Und- Lind Quist chapel Saturday morning and at Hooper that afternoon ning ning- then on Sunday until time of services Interment will III be In the Hooper cemetery Flowers may be left at Lindquist's on Sunday un- un until until un until til 11 a m