Ruth M. Bowers, a longtime resident of Muskogee,OK, died Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1992 at the Muskogee Regional Medical Center. She was 90.
Burial services were held Feb. 14 at the Neodesha Cemetery.
Miss Bowers was born April 29, 1901 in Neodesha and graduated from Neodesha High School in 1921. She continued her education at the University of Oklahoma and received special training and physical therapy training at Standford University. She was a medical officer in the Women's Army Corps during WW II, working in physical therapy clinics. She was chief physical therapist at Muskogee Veterans Hospital from 1948 to 1957 when she began working at the Muskogee General Hospital until her retirement in 1972. After retiring she was a physical therapy consultant for various nursing homes and the Indian Health Service in Tahlequeh from 1972 to 1977.
She was a member of both the American and Oklahoma Associations of Physical Therapists and served as a member of the board of directors of the Muskogee Community Nursing Services.
Survivors include a sister, Thelma Snedaker, Ottawa; two neices, Sally Midcap, Golden,CO and Arlein Songer, Wichita; a nephew, Donald Wayne Jacoby, Wichita; and several great-neices and nephews. The late Shirley Bowers of Neodesha was also a niece.
Burial services were held Feb. 14 at the Neodesha Cemetery.
Miss Bowers was born April 29, 1901 in Neodesha and graduated from Neodesha High School in 1921. She continued her education at the University of Oklahoma and received special training and physical therapy training at Standford University. She was a medical officer in the Women's Army Corps during WW II, working in physical therapy clinics. She was chief physical therapist at Muskogee Veterans Hospital from 1948 to 1957 when she began working at the Muskogee General Hospital until her retirement in 1972. After retiring she was a physical therapy consultant for various nursing homes and the Indian Health Service in Tahlequeh from 1972 to 1977.
She was a member of both the American and Oklahoma Associations of Physical Therapists and served as a member of the board of directors of the Muskogee Community Nursing Services.
Survivors include a sister, Thelma Snedaker, Ottawa; two neices, Sally Midcap, Golden,CO and Arlein Songer, Wichita; a nephew, Donald Wayne Jacoby, Wichita; and several great-neices and nephews. The late Shirley Bowers of Neodesha was also a niece.
Ruth M. Bowers, a longtime resident of Muskogee,OK, died Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1992 at the Muskogee Regional Medical Center. She was 90.
Burial services were held Feb. 14 at the Neodesha Cemetery.
Miss Bowers was born April 29, 1901 in Neodesha and graduated from Neodesha High School in 1921. She continued her education at the University of Oklahoma and received special training and physical therapy training at Standford University. She was a medical officer in the Women's Army Corps during WW II, working in physical therapy clinics. She was chief physical therapist at Muskogee Veterans Hospital from 1948 to 1957 when she began working at the Muskogee General Hospital until her retirement in 1972. After retiring she was a physical therapy consultant for various nursing homes and the Indian Health Service in Tahlequeh from 1972 to 1977.
She was a member of both the American and Oklahoma Associations of Physical Therapists and served as a member of the board of directors of the Muskogee Community Nursing Services.
Survivors include a sister, Thelma Snedaker, Ottawa; two neices, Sally Midcap, Golden,CO and Arlein Songer, Wichita; a nephew, Donald Wayne Jacoby, Wichita; and several great-neices and nephews. The late Shirley Bowers of Neodesha was also a niece.
Burial services were held Feb. 14 at the Neodesha Cemetery.
Miss Bowers was born April 29, 1901 in Neodesha and graduated from Neodesha High School in 1921. She continued her education at the University of Oklahoma and received special training and physical therapy training at Standford University. She was a medical officer in the Women's Army Corps during WW II, working in physical therapy clinics. She was chief physical therapist at Muskogee Veterans Hospital from 1948 to 1957 when she began working at the Muskogee General Hospital until her retirement in 1972. After retiring she was a physical therapy consultant for various nursing homes and the Indian Health Service in Tahlequeh from 1972 to 1977.
She was a member of both the American and Oklahoma Associations of Physical Therapists and served as a member of the board of directors of the Muskogee Community Nursing Services.
Survivors include a sister, Thelma Snedaker, Ottawa; two neices, Sally Midcap, Golden,CO and Arlein Songer, Wichita; a nephew, Donald Wayne Jacoby, Wichita; and several great-neices and nephews. The late Shirley Bowers of Neodesha was also a niece.
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