Elizabeth P. Dow |
| Posted 2008-07-04 by Sharon |
| Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ Oct 16, 1959, p. 9 Mrs. Dow Died In Prescott Sunday Mr. Elizabeth Dow, a resident of Wickenburg Since 1921 and one of the first licensed women barbers of the state, died in the Pioneers Home in Prescott Sunday at the age of 76. Funeral services were conducted in the Wickenburg Chapel Wednesday afternoon with Dr. Charles S. Poling, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial followed in the Wickenburg Cemetery. A native of Illinois, Mrs. Dow lived in St. Louis, Mo., and spent two years Fairbanks Alaska before moving to Seligman about 50 years ago. It was there that she married Henry C. Dow in 1915 and soon afterwards they moved to Congress Junction where they operated a barber shop. They moved to Wickenburg in 1921 and established a barber shop in the building now occupied by the Wickenburg Mine Supply. Mr. Dow died in 1931. The barber shop was closed soon after the war but Mrs. Dow continued to cut hair in her own home for several years. She became a resident of the Pioneers Home in Prescott two years ago. Only known survivors, according to her friends here are a step-sister and a cousin whose addresses are unknown. See Also: Find a Grave |
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