Talmage McGowan |
| Posted 2008-05-04 by Maurine |
| Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona - August 2, 1946 T. McGOWAN’S DEATH SHOCKS MANY FRIENDS The death in Phoenix last Friday morning of Talmage McGowan brought sorrow to this community where he had lived and had been in business for nearly a decade and which he served well and faithfully for four consecutive terms as a representative in the state legislature. At his death, which followed an illness of several months, he was chairman of the Highway and Bridges committee of the Legislative. A registered pharmacist, Mr. McGowan was in the drug business in Arizona for many years, employed originally in stores in the Glendale and Peoria districts and coming to Wickenburg in 1936 as manager of the Carol Wood drug store here. He took over that business in 1946, naming it McGowan’s pharmacy, by which it was known until its sale in 1944 to Joseph Kwis and Charm Wilson who have since operated it as the Hassayampa Drug. Born in Quitman, Mississippi, on March 23, 1890, Mr. McGowan was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James H. McGowan, plantation owners. He received his early schooling in Quitman and attended Loyola University in New Orleans where he received his degree in pharmacy in 1915. After employment in a drug store in Slidell, La. He came in Arizona in 1920. Married Iowa Girl In 1925 he married Margaret Howie, a native of Iowa Falls, Iowa, graduate of the University of Iowa and who at the time was teaching in the school in Mesa. Mr. McGowan was first elected in the state legislature from the Wickenburg district in 1938 and served continuously in the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th sessions of the legislature. He was appointed during his legislative career, on the Banking and Insurance Public Institution, fish and Game county Affairs and Agricultural and irrigation committees. His selection as chairman of the Highway and Bridges committee came during the most recent term of the legislature. Because of ill health, he was not a candidate for the re-election at the recent state primary. Mr. McGowan was a charter member of the Wickenburg rotary club and held membership in that organization at the time of his death. He was also active in the round Up Club here, and belonged to the Arizona Club of Phoenix. He affiliated with the Masonic order at the Peoria, the royal Arch in Prescott and the Shrine in Phoenix. Surviving Family Surviving are the widow, who has been assistant principal and librarian of the Wickenburg High school since 1940, and a daughter, Peggy Beth, a student at Steven College in Missouri. Mrs. McGowan resigned her position in the Wickenburg school system some time ago in become librarian of the Glendale, Arizona high school. She and her daughter are leaving around the first of August to make their home in Glendale while Peggy Beth will resume her studies this fall at Stevens. Three sister and two brothers also survive. They are Mrs. Robert land of Melvin, Ala.; Mrs. Gerald Rentz of Gilbertown, Ala; and Mrs. William More of Springfield, Ill. Douglas and Evans McGowan, both of Quitman, Miss. Funeral services for Mr. McGowan were held Saturday morning from the G. L. Leonard Chapel in Glendale, with the burial in the Glendale Memorial park. Officiating at the services was an old friend and neighbor of the McGowan family in Glendale, the Rev. Walter Hofman. Pallbearers were tony Boetto of Wickenburg; C. M. Wood, D. R. Jones, S.C. Neukom and D.H. Wilson, all of Glendale, and E.D. Moore of Phoenix. See Also: Find A Grave |
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