By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Kimberly Morris, longtime funeral director in Nocona, has compiled a two-volume set of not only death records, but personal notes from the original funeral home owner covering some 25 years.
She calls it an introduction to the life of the W.L. Scott II who started Scott Funeral Home, the person who tried to make one of the hardest days in life as easy as possible.
Morris sees it as something that not only shows a day in the life, but a historic collection of resident’s deaths, that can be an interesting read as well as a genealogy resource.
The result is “the unpublished” – Volume 1: 1960-1979 and Volume 2: 1980-1985. It is centered around the funeral home intake form where the director made plans for the family, but on the back Scott kept a journal of the activities surrounding this service from start to finish often beginning with picking up a body.
Morris explains it was a different era where there was not a “funeral home” persé as everyone was embalmed at home.

Read the full feature in your Thursday Bowie News.

Also read the Scott Brothers legacy from “the unpublished,” that explains the big impact this family had on business development in Montague County. See page 4A.

Make plans to attend the Bowie bands annual Cake Spin from 5 to 9 p.m. on April 5 in the high school cafeteria.
All Bowie bands will perform. Admission is free, while cake spin games are $1 per ticket or six for $5. Cost is $20 to play all night.
There also will be an auction for items donated from local businesses as well as tons of cakes to win. A concession stand will be open.

Congratulations to Jim Bowie Days Car Show Best of Show winner Daniel Fleitman with his 1949 Chevrolet. This annual spring show filled Pelham Park and was hosted by the Piston Heads Auto Club. See more on the car show on page 11B of the Thursday Bowie News. (Photo by Cindy Roller)