Louise Dowler
Louise Dowler, 83, of Brookings-Harbor, OR, died May 5, 2008 in a local hospital of natural causes. She was born Sept. 17, 1924 in Defuniak Springs, Florida; a daughter of Jacob Ambus and Anna Ellen Lee (Bell) Bishop. Mrs. Dowler was raised in Avon Park, Florida and graduated from high school there as the class valedictorian. During WWII, she worked for the U.S. Government as a clerk and secretary at the Avon Park Bombing Range, and later at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia for the Air Force and NACA (now NASA). In 1949, she moved to Denver, Colorado where she was employed as secretary to the Commanding General at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital.
In 1950 she decided to become a professional social worker and entered the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. While there, she met Warren Leroy Dowler and married him on September 20, 1952 in Ft. McClellan, Alabama. In Baltimore, Maryland Mrs. Dowler was employed in the social work field. Mrs. Dowler became a homemaker with the birth of their first child. Following her husbands military career assignment, during the Korean Conflict, they moved several times with their children. They later lived in Kankakee, Illinois, Rapid City, South Dakota and Sunland, San Jose, and Granite Bay, (Roseville) California. The Dowlers finally made their home in Sierra Madre, California for 40 years, and moved to Brookings-Harbor, OR in 2003.
She was passionate about traveling, and had journeyed to many areas, including Russia, China, Tibet, Bhutan, Greece, Turkey, Argentina and Antarctica, Alaska, Canada, Western Europe, Ireland, Scotland and Greenland, Chile’s Amazon River, Equador’s Galapagos Islands, and several Islands in Seven Seas of Indonesia.
She also enjoyed writing and self-published five editions, from 1973 to 1989, of the Lake Powell Boat and Tour Guide, and two editions of the pictorial Lake Powell and Rainbow Bridge. Her flower gardens in Sierra Madre were award-winning and filled her home year around with fresh cut; strangers frequently stopped to admire them. More often than not, they left with the gift of a bouquet. Locally, she loved the Winchuck beach and beachcombing.
Survivors include her husband Warren of Brookings-Harbor; two sons, Randy Dowler and wife Karen of Brookings-Harbor, OR their one son Chad (helicopter pilot) and Kim with their son Kalea and daughter Hi’ilei residing in Kilauea on the garden island of Kauai, Hawaii; and Louise’s son Danny Dowler and wife Crit of Alameda, California; and daughter Candy Dowler, of Eagle Rock, California and significant other Peter; Louise’s brothers, Willie J. Bishop of Baltimore, Maryland and Robert Walton (Walt). Bishop of Minneapolis, Minnesota; sisters, Ruby L. Soulek of Lacy, Washington, and Marie Odean Parrish of Waco, Texas. She was preceded in death by two brothers H. L. Bishop of Lake Placid, Florida, and Edward of Miami, Florida.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m, Monday, May 19th at Redwood Memorial Chapel, 1020 Fifield St., Brookings, OR. Interment will follow at W. J. Ward Memorial Cemetery in Brookings. In lieu of flowers, Memorials, may be made to the Louise Dowler Memorial Fund for medical research funding, c/o Evergreen Federal Bank, P.O. Box 1099, Brookings, OR
97415.