Glenn Eugene Gowdy, Jr., 55, of Saulsbury, died Tuesday afternoon at Bolivar General Hospital.
The husband of Shirley Ann Howell Gowdy, who he married August 31, 1974, he was an avid sports card collector and fisherman. Born May 18, 1950, to the late Glenn Eugene Gowdy, Sr. and Mary Margaret Reed Gowdy, who survives, he was retired from Western Mental Health Institute where he had been a psychiatric technician and recreational therapist for 24 years. He had lived here since 1963 and was a member of the Abundant Life Christian Fellowship Church.
Services were Friday, July 15, at 11 am at Shackelford's Bolivar chapel with Duane Moore officiating. Burial was in Bolivar Memorial Cemetery.
Including his wife, whom he married August 31, 1974, and mother, Mary Gowdy of Stantonville, he is survived by his daughter Elizabeth Ann Coleman of Saulsbury; three sons, Christopher Eugene and Terrance Wayne Gowdy of Saulsbury and Johnny Ray Gowdy of Bolivar; three sisters, Peggy Sue Jones of Stantonville, Brenda Doles of Selmer, and Lois Jean Gowdy of Huntingdon; one brother, Bennie Neal Gowdy of Toone; and one grandchild.