EUGENE COWAN, Obituary

LORING Eugene E. Cowan, 78, longtime rancher of Loring, died Nov. 18, 2002, at a Malta hospital.

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Thursday in the Malta Lutheran Church. Burial will be 2 p.m. Friday in the Turner Cemetery with military honors.

Gene was born on April 24, 1924, in Harlem to Harold and Alice (Needham) Cowan. He attended schools in Turner and graduated in 1942. He then went to work in the shipyards at Seattle. Gene joined the Army and was assigned to the 708th Amphibious Tank Battalion in the Asiatic Pacific Theater during World War II.

When the war was over, Gene married his chi...