Austin Gowan
Born: April 23, 1901
Died: January 10, 1963
Married: Betty Pelkey
Children: Norma Gowan, Joan Ryan, Ginger Lawless, Gertrude Eler, Joyce Mattimore, Austin Gowan Jr., Richard Gowan
Austin McKinley Gowan
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, January 10, 1963
Austin M. Gowan
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 on Broadway.
Survivors are his wife, the former Betty Pelkey; five daughters, Norma, Mrs. Joan Ryan, and Mrs. Ginger Lawless of Saranac Lake and Mrs Gertrude Eler of Plattsburgh and Mrs. Joyce Mattimore of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.; two sons, Austin, Jr. of Syracuse and Richard of Saranac Lake, and twenty grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Fortune Funeral Home where Dr. Lionel R. Driscoll, pastor of the Methodist Church, will conduct a funeral service at 2 p.m. Saturday. Interment will be in Brookside Cemetery in Bloomingdale in May.