Bowen Robinson, 77, of Lafayette, retired real estate businessman, died Thursday of last week in Wabash Valley Sanitarium. He had been in failing health 10 years and in the sanitarium since April. He was born and reared in Delphi where he was graduated from high school. He graduated from the School of Agriculture at Purdue University in 1914. His marriage in 1934 Was to Louise S. Schafer in Washington, D.C. Mr. Robinson was a veteran of World War I, serving with the Quartermaster Corps, he was a 50-year member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and Masonic Lodge 143 in Delphi. Surviving with the widow is a sister, Miss Isabel Robinson of The Pythian Home. Private services and entombment were Saturday at Tippecanoe Memory Gardens Mausoleum at Lafayette.

THE HOOSIER DEMOCRAT, FLORA, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1969