Raymond Ross Vowell

1914 - 1994  (80 years)

• Name	Raymond Ross Vowell  [1]
  Birth	1 Feb 1914	Potlatch, Latah, Idaho   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Nov 1994	Clarkston, Asotin, Washington   [1, 2]
  Burial	Greenwood Cemetery, Palouse, Whitman, Washington   [1]
  Person ID	I337547	Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)
  Last Modified	13 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	Fred Ray Vowell
  Mother	Edna Viola Wilcox
  Family ID	F218648	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marcia Grace Crockett,   b. 18 Jun 1916, ..., Bonner, Idaho d. 26 Apr 2012, Turner, Marion, Oregon (Age 95 years)
  Marriage	12 Dec 1938	Couer d'Alene, Kootenai, Idaho   [2]
  Children	1. Raymond C. Vowell   2. Donald Stuart Vowell,   b. 17 Jan 1949, Clarkston, Asotin, Washington d. 15 Jan 2018 (Age 68 years)   3. Anita Vowell   4. Elizabeth Vowell
  Family ID	F218647	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Lewiston Morning Tribune (ID) December 2, 1994 Raymond Ross Vowell, 80, a retired service station owner and Clarkston resident, died of pneumonia Wednesday at Tri-State Health and Rehabilitation Center at Clarkston. He was born Feb. 1, 1914, near Potlatch, Idaho, to Fred Ray and Edna Viola Willcox Vowell. He began his schooling at Clarkston and the family then moved to Lewiston, where he graduated from high school. He attended Lewiston Business College and Lewiston State Normal School (now Lewis-Clark State College). He married Marcia G. Crockett Dec. 12, 1938, at Coeur d'Alene. During World War II he ran a service station and in 1949 he opened his own, called Vowell's Veltex Service Station, located where Blair's Floor Store is now. The name was later changed to Vowell's Conoco, where he worked until his retirement in the early 1980s. He was a member of the Clarkston Masons and Clarkston Rotary Club. He was also president of the Clarkston Chamber of Commerce and was a Clarkston City Council member for a short time. He was an accomplished vocalist and sang in various groups and choirs and at funeral services. He also played the clarinet and saxophone. He was active in the First Christian Church at Clarkston, where he was involved with the choir and was a board member and past trustee. Survivors include his wife of Clarkston; two sons, Raymond C. (Chuck) Vowell of Hawaii and Donald Vowell of Keizer, Ore.; two daughters, Anita Bader of Port Orchard, Wash., and Elizabeth Manfred of Falls Pass, Alaska; two sisters, Kathryn Fader of Clarkston and Zelma March of Caldwell, Idaho; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Three sisters and two brothers died previously.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9519] Cemetery index, Greenwood Cemetery, Palouse, Whitman, Washington, (Find-a-Grave). [S76592] Obituary, Lewiston Morning Tribune (ID), Raymond Ross Vowell, (December 2, 1994).