Harvey Dale Flowers was born February 19, 1889, in Gravity, Iowa, the son of Ralph M. Flowers, and Ida Clifton Flowers. (His year of birth is from delayed birth record, Military registrations, 1900 census versus the tombstone reading of 1888) He was educated in the schools of Osborne County, Kansas.
As a boy Mr. Flowers became a member of the Methodist Church of Osborne, Kansas.
On October 22, 1909, he was united in marriage to Emma Ellen Rathbun in Osborne, Kansas. Four children were born in Osborne, Kansas. Harry Rathurn Flowers, Alice May, Aileen Marguerite, Irvin Homer. Harvey was engaged in farming.
"Harvey Flowers made a call at this office Monday afternoon to make arrangements for a batch of sale bills for him, having decided to take Horace Greeley's ancient advice and go west. Harvey will make a through clean-up of his possessions on Wednesday, Octoberr 27, and with his family will move to Beuna Vista, Colorado, where he has accepted a position with a cousin hauling ore from one of the silver mines. Durn the luck anyway, we hate to see Harve and his excellent family pull up stakes and leave us, but he assures us that the proposition offered him in the mining district is one that he cannot well afford to turn down. The News and Times joins the many friends of the family in wishing them health and prosperity in their new home and assures them that whenever they make up their minds to move back to the good old state of Kansas, they will find the people of Downs waiting to receive them in their midst."
Page 7 of The Downs News and The Downs Times, published in Downs, Kansas on Thursday, October 14th, 1920
His next adventure was the trucking business, and later got the first P.U.C. permit in 1926 in Chaffee county. His company was called Eveready Freight Service. He also served at various times as school janitor, Deputy Sheriff, a member of the town council, and an auctioneer. He was in the Republican political party.
Two more children, John Harvey and Robert Joseph were born in Buena Vista, Colorado.
Harve had gone to Potter, Nebraska, for the harvest (a property inherited from his Mother). He ate some bad tomatoes and got botulism. He died at Burlington, Colorado, on July 30th, 1947, as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma Flowers, and by five children. Mrs. Alice Brown of San Gabriel, Calif., Irvin H. Flowers of Sunland, Calif., Mrs. Aileen Gregg, John H. flowers and Robert J. Flowers of Buena Vista, Colo. Two brothers, Cliff Flowers of Ellis, Kansas and Arch Flowers of Medford, Oregon, and a number of grand children.
Services were held Monday afternoon at the Stranahan Mortuary, with Rev. Dutton in charge, and the body was laid to rest in Mt. Olivet cemetery.
Pallbearers were: E.R. Daniels, Guy Wiershing, Ben Wright, Dale Morgan, Robert Allinger, Ronald Crymble, Harry Tinsley, and Wm. Turner. Beautiful flowers and letters from several states were a tribute to his high esteem in which Harvey Dale Flowers was held by all who knew him.
As a boy Mr. Flowers became a member of the Methodist Church of Osborne, Kansas.
On October 22, 1909, he was united in marriage to Emma Ellen Rathbun in Osborne, Kansas. Four children were born in Osborne, Kansas. Harry Rathurn Flowers, Alice May, Aileen Marguerite, Irvin Homer. Harvey was engaged in farming.
"Harvey Flowers made a call at this office Monday afternoon to make arrangements for a batch of sale bills for him, having decided to take Horace Greeley's ancient advice and go west. Harvey will make a through clean-up of his possessions on Wednesday, Octoberr 27, and with his family will move to Beuna Vista, Colorado, where he has accepted a position with a cousin hauling ore from one of the silver mines. Durn the luck anyway, we hate to see Harve and his excellent family pull up stakes and leave us, but he assures us that the proposition offered him in the mining district is one that he cannot well afford to turn down. The News and Times joins the many friends of the family in wishing them health and prosperity in their new home and assures them that whenever they make up their minds to move back to the good old state of Kansas, they will find the people of Downs waiting to receive them in their midst."
Page 7 of The Downs News and The Downs Times, published in Downs, Kansas on Thursday, October 14th, 1920
His next adventure was the trucking business, and later got the first P.U.C. permit in 1926 in Chaffee county. His company was called Eveready Freight Service. He also served at various times as school janitor, Deputy Sheriff, a member of the town council, and an auctioneer. He was in the Republican political party.
Two more children, John Harvey and Robert Joseph were born in Buena Vista, Colorado.
Harve had gone to Potter, Nebraska, for the harvest (a property inherited from his Mother). He ate some bad tomatoes and got botulism. He died at Burlington, Colorado, on July 30th, 1947, as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma Flowers, and by five children. Mrs. Alice Brown of San Gabriel, Calif., Irvin H. Flowers of Sunland, Calif., Mrs. Aileen Gregg, John H. flowers and Robert J. Flowers of Buena Vista, Colo. Two brothers, Cliff Flowers of Ellis, Kansas and Arch Flowers of Medford, Oregon, and a number of grand children.
Services were held Monday afternoon at the Stranahan Mortuary, with Rev. Dutton in charge, and the body was laid to rest in Mt. Olivet cemetery.
Pallbearers were: E.R. Daniels, Guy Wiershing, Ben Wright, Dale Morgan, Robert Allinger, Ronald Crymble, Harry Tinsley, and Wm. Turner. Beautiful flowers and letters from several states were a tribute to his high esteem in which Harvey Dale Flowers was held by all who knew him.
Harvey Dale Flowers was born February 19, 1889, in Gravity, Iowa, the son of Ralph M. Flowers, and Ida Clifton Flowers. (His year of birth is from delayed birth record, Military registrations, 1900 census versus the tombstone reading of 1888) He was educated in the schools of Osborne County, Kansas.
As a boy Mr. Flowers became a member of the Methodist Church of Osborne, Kansas.
On October 22, 1909, he was united in marriage to Emma Ellen Rathbun in Osborne, Kansas. Four children were born in Osborne, Kansas. Harry Rathurn Flowers, Alice May, Aileen Marguerite, Irvin Homer. Harvey was engaged in farming.
"Harvey Flowers made a call at this office Monday afternoon to make arrangements for a batch of sale bills for him, having decided to take Horace Greeley's ancient advice and go west. Harvey will make a through clean-up of his possessions on Wednesday, Octoberr 27, and with his family will move to Beuna Vista, Colorado, where he has accepted a position with a cousin hauling ore from one of the silver mines. Durn the luck anyway, we hate to see Harve and his excellent family pull up stakes and leave us, but he assures us that the proposition offered him in the mining district is one that he cannot well afford to turn down. The News and Times joins the many friends of the family in wishing them health and prosperity in their new home and assures them that whenever they make up their minds to move back to the good old state of Kansas, they will find the people of Downs waiting to receive them in their midst."
Page 7 of The Downs News and The Downs Times, published in Downs, Kansas on Thursday, October 14th, 1920
His next adventure was the trucking business, and later got the first P.U.C. permit in 1926 in Chaffee county. His company was called Eveready Freight Service. He also served at various times as school janitor, Deputy Sheriff, a member of the town council, and an auctioneer. He was in the Republican political party.
Two more children, John Harvey and Robert Joseph were born in Buena Vista, Colorado.
Harve had gone to Potter, Nebraska, for the harvest (a property inherited from his Mother). He ate some bad tomatoes and got botulism. He died at Burlington, Colorado, on July 30th, 1947, as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma Flowers, and by five children. Mrs. Alice Brown of San Gabriel, Calif., Irvin H. Flowers of Sunland, Calif., Mrs. Aileen Gregg, John H. flowers and Robert J. Flowers of Buena Vista, Colo. Two brothers, Cliff Flowers of Ellis, Kansas and Arch Flowers of Medford, Oregon, and a number of grand children.
Services were held Monday afternoon at the Stranahan Mortuary, with Rev. Dutton in charge, and the body was laid to rest in Mt. Olivet cemetery.
Pallbearers were: E.R. Daniels, Guy Wiershing, Ben Wright, Dale Morgan, Robert Allinger, Ronald Crymble, Harry Tinsley, and Wm. Turner. Beautiful flowers and letters from several states were a tribute to his high esteem in which Harvey Dale Flowers was held by all who knew him.
As a boy Mr. Flowers became a member of the Methodist Church of Osborne, Kansas.
On October 22, 1909, he was united in marriage to Emma Ellen Rathbun in Osborne, Kansas. Four children were born in Osborne, Kansas. Harry Rathurn Flowers, Alice May, Aileen Marguerite, Irvin Homer. Harvey was engaged in farming.
"Harvey Flowers made a call at this office Monday afternoon to make arrangements for a batch of sale bills for him, having decided to take Horace Greeley's ancient advice and go west. Harvey will make a through clean-up of his possessions on Wednesday, Octoberr 27, and with his family will move to Beuna Vista, Colorado, where he has accepted a position with a cousin hauling ore from one of the silver mines. Durn the luck anyway, we hate to see Harve and his excellent family pull up stakes and leave us, but he assures us that the proposition offered him in the mining district is one that he cannot well afford to turn down. The News and Times joins the many friends of the family in wishing them health and prosperity in their new home and assures them that whenever they make up their minds to move back to the good old state of Kansas, they will find the people of Downs waiting to receive them in their midst."
Page 7 of The Downs News and The Downs Times, published in Downs, Kansas on Thursday, October 14th, 1920
His next adventure was the trucking business, and later got the first P.U.C. permit in 1926 in Chaffee county. His company was called Eveready Freight Service. He also served at various times as school janitor, Deputy Sheriff, a member of the town council, and an auctioneer. He was in the Republican political party.
Two more children, John Harvey and Robert Joseph were born in Buena Vista, Colorado.
Harve had gone to Potter, Nebraska, for the harvest (a property inherited from his Mother). He ate some bad tomatoes and got botulism. He died at Burlington, Colorado, on July 30th, 1947, as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma Flowers, and by five children. Mrs. Alice Brown of San Gabriel, Calif., Irvin H. Flowers of Sunland, Calif., Mrs. Aileen Gregg, John H. flowers and Robert J. Flowers of Buena Vista, Colo. Two brothers, Cliff Flowers of Ellis, Kansas and Arch Flowers of Medford, Oregon, and a number of grand children.
Services were held Monday afternoon at the Stranahan Mortuary, with Rev. Dutton in charge, and the body was laid to rest in Mt. Olivet cemetery.
Pallbearers were: E.R. Daniels, Guy Wiershing, Ben Wright, Dale Morgan, Robert Allinger, Ronald Crymble, Harry Tinsley, and Wm. Turner. Beautiful flowers and letters from several states were a tribute to his high esteem in which Harvey Dale Flowers was held by all who knew him.
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