Vera Bower

Funeral Services: will be held on Monday, August 30, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. at the VFW Hall in Jordan

Interment: will follow in the Pioneer Cemetery in Jordan with full military honors

Vera Mae Bower, age 86, of Jordan passed away on Friday, August 20, 2004 at the Garfield County Health Center in Jordan.

Vera was born in Glendive, Montana on August 13, 1918, the daughter of Bert and Nell (Brown) Bower. She was raised in Yuma, Arizona until the age of 12 when she moved to Butte, Montana where she lived at the Paul Clark Home. She attended school in Butte and then went to Beauty School and became a beautician. She then moved to Fort Peck where she was a waitress and also a beautician during the building of the dam. In 1944, Vera enlisted in the United States Navy where she served as a medical assistant in Hawaii. She was among the first group of WAVES to serve after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Following her honorable discharge from the service, she returned to Butte where she worked as a beautician. In 1965, she moved to Jordan where she ran a beauty shop until 1988, when she moved back to Butte to be near family where she remained until 2003 when she moved back to Jordan.

Vera was an excellent painter and she won many awards at the county fair. Vera was on the St. Patricks Day and Forth of July Parade committee in Butte. She was the Commander of the VFW in Jordan. Vera also served as the Montanan State Cosmetology Inspector. Vera loved cats and was known to take in strays and give them a good home. She traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe visiting friends.

Vera is survived by her half brother, Bert Bower of Alaska; her half sister, Velda Vial of Hamilton, MT; her good friend, Jane Wille & her late husband Sterling of Jordan, MT; and numerous cousins in Montana, Alaska, and California including Neil and Charlotte Lynch of Butte, MT.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, August 30, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. at the VFW Hall in Jordan. Interment will follow in the Pioneer Cemetery in Jordan with full military honors. Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home of Jordan is in charge of the arrangements. Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the charity of one's choice.