The Bowie News, Bowie, Montague County, Texas, Friday, May 13, 1949, p.1

Death Claims Ernest Bowling While Preparing Grave in Elmwood

Beautiful Elmwood Cemetery claimed for its own Wednesday, Ernest Bowling, 69, who for more than a quarter of a century had been custodian there, giving kindly attention to the flowers and the trees and the keeping of the last resting place of scores whose graves he had carefully kept.

Death claimed him suddenly while he and his son dug a grave for M. M. Huskey, another pioneer here. He was dead before his son could summon assistance. He was born May 10, 1880, in Alabama, and had been custodian at the cemetery for twenty-eight years.

Funeral services will be held today (Friday) at 3 p.m., in the Burgess
Funeral Chapel with Rev. G. B. Bradshaw officiating. Interment will
be in Elmwood Cemetery with Masonic graveside services.

He is survived by his wife; five sons, Dewey of Bowie, Virgil of Lubbock; Alton, O'Neal and E. G., all of Fort Worth, and three daughters, Mrs. George Moyer of Fort Worth, Mrs. C.W. Yates of Saginaw and Mrs. Raymond Bell of Bowie.
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THE NOCONA NEWS, Nocona, Montague County, Texas, Friday. May 20, 1949, p.11

Funeral Services were held for Ernest Bowling, 68, Friday, May 13, at
3 p.m. in Bowie, with Rev. G. B. Bradshaw in charge.

Bowling was caretaker of the Elmwood Cemetery for 27 years and he died of a heart attack Wednesday morning while digging a grave.

He was born in Alabama, but came to Texas when quite young and lived in or near Bowie the greater part of his life.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ernest Bowling; Bowie; five sons,
Dewey, Bowie, Virgil, Lubbock, Alton, Oneal, and E. G. all of Fort
Worth; three Daughters, Mrs. W. C. Yates, Saginaw; Mrs. Raymond Bell, Bowie; Mrs. George Moyer, Fort Worth.

Interment was in the Elmwood Cemetery with Masonic services under the direction of the Bowie chapter.