https://wiki.historicsaranaclake.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Austin_GowanAustin Gowan - Revision history2026-11-05T17:48:44ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.44.3https://wiki.historicsaranaclake.org/index.php?title=Austin_Gowan&diff=166590&oldid=prevEllie Hoyt at 19:12, 3 August 20262026-08-03T19:12:35Z<p></p>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Born''': April 23, 1901<br />
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'''Died''': January 10, 1963<br />
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'''Married''': [[Betty Gowan|Betty Pelkey]]<br />
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'''Children''': [[Norma Gowan]], [[Joan Ryan]], [[Ginger Lawless Hughes|Ginger Lawless]], [[Gertrude Eler]], [[Joyce Elizabeth Lawson|Joyce Mattimore]], [[Austin Gowan Jr.]], [[Richard Gowan]]<br />
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'''Austin McKinley Gowan'''<br />
----''[[Adirondack Daily Enterprise]]'', January 10, 1963<br />
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'''Austin M. Gowan'''<br />
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Austin McKinley Gowan, 61, who opened the first tire repair shop in Saranac Lake in 1922, died at 6:30 this morning at Saranac Lake General Hospital. He had been a patient there since Monday. Mr. Gowan was born April 23, 1901, in Rockburn Canada, a son of Ezra L. And Gertrude D. Gowan and came to Saranac Lake at the age of six. After discontinuing the repair shop, Mr. Gowan and an uncle started [[Gowan's Tire Shop|Gowan’s Tire Shop]] on [[Broadway]].<br />
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Survivors are his wife, the former [[Betty Gowan|Betty Pelkey]]; five daughters, [[Norma Gowan|Norma]], Mrs. [[Joan Ryan]], and Mrs. [[Ginger Lawless Hughes|Ginger Lawless]] of Saranac Lake and Mrs [[Gertrude Eler]] of Plattsburgh and Mrs. [[Joyce Elizabeth Lawson|Joyce Mattimore]] of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.; two sons, [[Austin Gowan Jr.|Austin, Jr.]] of Syracuse and [[Richard Gowan|Richard]] of Saranac Lake, and twenty grandchildren.<br />
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Friends may call at the [[Fortune Funeral Home]] where Dr. [[Lionel R. Driscoll|Lionel R. Driscol]]<nowiki/>l, pastor of the [[Methodist Church]], will conduct a funeral service at 2 p.m. Saturday. Interment will be in [[Brookside Cemetery, Bloomingdale|Brookside Cemetery]] in Bloomingdale in May.<br />
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