Lois Rowden

1929-2024

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Lois Maxine Rowden, 95, Meta, passed away  Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, at the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia.

She was born Aug. 22, 1929, to the late Howell Loren and Amy Viola (Adkins) Burd in Maries County.

She was united in marriage to Harold Edward Rowden June 4, 1949, in Vienna.

She was employed as a cook at Mason Ridge School and as both a librarian and teacher at Maries R-1 school.

Lois was preceded in death by husband, Harold; parents, Howell and Amy; sisters, Wanda D’Angelo and Leila Ruth Bassett; and one great-grandson.

She is survived by children, Kevin Rowden and wife Sherry and Keith Rowden and wife Patty, all of Meta, Randy Rowden and wife Charlotte and Rhonda Slone and husband Dwight, all of Vienna; brother, Don Burd and wife Joyce of Dixon; sisters, Janice Martin of Iberia and Linda Spillars and husband Elmer of Dixon; eight grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

Funeral service was  held Nov.9, in the Birmingham-Martin Funeral Home in Vienna with Bro. Kevin Rowden officiating.

Interment was in Wheeler Cemetery, near Dixon.

Memorial contributions suggested to the Wheeler Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund.

Arrangements entrusted to Birmingham-Martin Funeral Home in Vienna.