Mr. McDowell retired last summer from his duties as custodian of the Criminal Court building in Crown Point.
His wife, Mrs. Clara Sherard McDowell, survives.
Rev. E.L. Worley will officiate at memorial services which will be conducted at 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 11, in the Eskridge Funeral Home.
A copy of another newspaper obituary was found in this scrapbook:
Mr. McDowell was born Jan. 11, 1886, at North Manchester, Ind., and on Feb. 16, 1938, he was married to Clara Sherard of Lowell, where he had since made his home. He retired last summer from his duties as custodian of the Criminal Court building, Crown Point.
Mr. McDowell was a member of the Masonic Colfax Lodge, No. 378.
Surviving besides his widow are: a stepson, Charles Sherard of Indianapolis, and a brother, J. Arthur McDowell of Huntington.
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