Obituary reads:
Adam Green, son of John Wesley and Alpha Retta (Baldwin) Prowers was born November 23, 1910 near Caddon In Prowers County, Colorado. He died at the Alva Beadles Nursing Home on December 6, 1992 at the age of 82.
Funeral services will at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 9, 1992 with Reverend Phillip Beard and Reverend Morris Cook officiating. Interment will follow at the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Wharton Funeral Chapel.
He attended school in Lamar where he graduated from high school with the class of 1928. He worked around Lamar.
He was married to June Day in Lamar, Colorado in October 1931. To their marriage two daughters were born. Following their marriage they lived in Lamar then moved to Denver, where he worked as a milkman. He became a Highway Patrolman in Colorado, and later a bus driver for Continental Trailways.
He was married to Esta Belle Brickman on September 8, 1953 at Denver. To their marriage a daughter was born. Mrs. Prowers died on April 15, 1982.
Following their marriage they lived in Pueblo, Colorado where he continued driving bus. During WWII they worked for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation. They then moved to Alva and he operated the H&R Block Tax Service and farmed with Ben Brickman. Later he had the Prowers Tax Service.
Mr. Prowers was a member of the Christian Church in Lamar and the Alva Elks Lodge.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, Hope Prowers and Harriett Pick, his twin brother, Charles and his brother John Wesley.
Adam is survived by his three daughters and their husbands, Barbara Walker of Denver, Mary and James Johnson of Broomfield, Colorado and Julie and Morris Cook of Rockdale, Texas; ten grand-children and their spouses; seven great grandchildren; several nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Contribution may be made in his memory to the American Cancer Society or Northwestern Okalahoma State University Music Department.
-- Published in the Alva Newspaper, December 8, 1992
Obituary reads:
Adam Green, son of John Wesley and Alpha Retta (Baldwin) Prowers was born November 23, 1910 near Caddon In Prowers County, Colorado. He died at the Alva Beadles Nursing Home on December 6, 1992 at the age of 82.
Funeral services will at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 9, 1992 with Reverend Phillip Beard and Reverend Morris Cook officiating. Interment will follow at the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Wharton Funeral Chapel.
He attended school in Lamar where he graduated from high school with the class of 1928. He worked around Lamar.
He was married to June Day in Lamar, Colorado in October 1931. To their marriage two daughters were born. Following their marriage they lived in Lamar then moved to Denver, where he worked as a milkman. He became a Highway Patrolman in Colorado, and later a bus driver for Continental Trailways.
He was married to Esta Belle Brickman on September 8, 1953 at Denver. To their marriage a daughter was born. Mrs. Prowers died on April 15, 1982.
Following their marriage they lived in Pueblo, Colorado where he continued driving bus. During WWII they worked for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation. They then moved to Alva and he operated the H&R Block Tax Service and farmed with Ben Brickman. Later he had the Prowers Tax Service.
Mr. Prowers was a member of the Christian Church in Lamar and the Alva Elks Lodge.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, Hope Prowers and Harriett Pick, his twin brother, Charles and his brother John Wesley.
Adam is survived by his three daughters and their husbands, Barbara Walker of Denver, Mary and James Johnson of Broomfield, Colorado and Julie and Morris Cook of Rockdale, Texas; ten grand-children and their spouses; seven great grandchildren; several nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Contribution may be made in his memory to the American Cancer Society or Northwestern Okalahoma State University Music Department.
-- Published in the Alva Newspaper, December 8, 1992
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