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- Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 1/13/1947
A former Rapids hotelkeeper,
Miss Mabel Bowen, 64, was found
dead Saturday afternoon in the liv-
ing quarters of the old hotel build-
ing.
Sheriff Henry E. Becker said
friends had failedd to see her about
the place for two or three days. En-
tering through a rear door which
they found unlocke they searched
and found her body lying across a
bed.
Dr. Mabel Carmer, coroner, of
Newfane, attributed death to na-
tural causes. She said the woman
had been dead about two days.
Miss Bowen spent her youth on
the Bowen Road, six miles south-
east of Lockport. She was employed
at the home of the late Charles E.
Dickinson of this city when she
purchased the old Utley Hotel at
the Rapids in 1909. It contains 22
rooms and before the days, of the
automobile was a popular hostelry.
In recent years it had been closed
but Miss Bowen continued to live
in part of the building.
Surviving are a brother, Walter
L. Bowen and a sister, Mrs. Earl
Covel, Riddle Road,, Town of Royal-
ton.
Services will be held tomorrow
afternoon at the Covell home. Bu-
rial will be in Schafer Cemetery,
Disinger Road.
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