Margarette Bowers Colclasure Allen, Granny Margarette as she was lovingly known to her family and friends, passed away peacefully March 1, 2005, due to the complications of the flu and pneumonia, in Baptist Medical Center at Heber Springs. Granny was born February 13, 1909, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, one of four children of Herman H. Bowers and Mertie Huffman Bowers.
She started at the age of fifteen to make her own way in life, and she had a very interesting life as she would reminisce and tell her stories of working as a maid and cleaning bank buildings, and private homes. While working for the owners of the Yellow Cab Company in Michigan, the family was entertaining Charles Lindberg, and she was invited to take a flight with him in his open cockpit airplane. While living in Arizona with her husband Micky Colclasure, who worked in the gold mines, they would go up into the mountains on weekends and look for gold and turquoise. It was also in Arizona that she learned to cook over an open fire pit like the Indian women did. With their gold nuggets and turquoise, she and Mickey moved from Arizona to Arkansas, settling in the Concord area and later to the Good Springs community. In the mid-sixties when she was doing maid service at the Barnett Motel, she met the Olmstead Family and started working for them as Russ's baby sitter and doing house work one day a week for them. She was also employed to do maid service at The Red Apple Inn and for two families who lived on Eden Isle. It was 1970 when her life took on a new level of responsibility and a lot more excitement with the arrival of Ralph Waren Olmstead. Granny was asked to baby sit, care for Waren, and keep house. This was when Granny was absolutely Granny, and she loved it. As Waren grew-up, she was asked to come to the Funeral Home and clean. Her sweet manner and her dedication and pride in her work endeared her to all the Funeral Home employees, and they called her Granny. Granny moved to town in 1971 when Mr. French completed building her new house. We had a house warming party for her and got everything fixed-up the way she wanted it. In 1990, the doctor told her that she had a heart condition and that she would need bypass surgery, she said, "No surgery, take me home". She voluntarily stopped driving and sold her little grey Plymouth to Erick Engler and retired to her home. She has asked the Lord to let her live to see Waren grow-up and start a family. With the help of her family and Iris Bailey, who so lovingly assisted her in the home, she was able to live in her home, be happy and content, baking sugar cookies for her boys, and Waren Thomas and Sarah Grace, date nut bread for neighbors and friends, and gingerbread for Tom. Holidays and birthdays were special for Granny. For the dining table she would always send a flower arrangement. For the past thirty years, she was always treated with a birthday party at the Olmstead's. The past few years when she was unable to get out, the party was at her house with the neighbors and friends invited to come for cake and coffee. She loved her home so much and thanked the Lord for her blessings and looked forward to Sunday morning when she would watch the Methodist Church service at 10:00 on television. After being in the hospital for a few days in November of 2004, Dr. Sharp suggested to Granny that she should not be living alone and that arrangements would be made for her to live at the nursing home. This was the one thing that we had all prayed would not happen. Her room at Beverly Health was decorated with pictures of Waren, Tracy, Waren Thomas, Sarah Grace, Russ and Jessica's dogs, plants and flowers, but Granny did not like the nursing home, would not go to therapy, and did not like their food. Her 96th birthday was celebrated with her friends, Bob, Charlotte and Darryl, Berniece, Mrs. Hazelwood, Iris, and her family, with cake in her room, which was decorated with happy birthday cards, flowers, and balloons. February 23, Dr. Sharp admitted Granny to the hospital with the flu and pneumonia. March 1, 2005, Jesus called this sweet, generous and kind Granny to Heaven. She was preceded in death by her son, Robert, two brothers, and a sister. She leaves behind her family and her dear friends, who will miss her very much.
Services Were held on Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 10:00 am in the Olmstead Chapel with Bro. Jim French officiating. Interment followed in Woodland Memorial Park in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas.
She started at the age of fifteen to make her own way in life, and she had a very interesting life as she would reminisce and tell her stories of working as a maid and cleaning bank buildings, and private homes. While working for the owners of the Yellow Cab Company in Michigan, the family was entertaining Charles Lindberg, and she was invited to take a flight with him in his open cockpit airplane. While living in Arizona with her husband Micky Colclasure, who worked in the gold mines, they would go up into the mountains on weekends and look for gold and turquoise. It was also in Arizona that she learned to cook over an open fire pit like the Indian women did. With their gold nuggets and turquoise, she and Mickey moved from Arizona to Arkansas, settling in the Concord area and later to the Good Springs community. In the mid-sixties when she was doing maid service at the Barnett Motel, she met the Olmstead Family and started working for them as Russ's baby sitter and doing house work one day a week for them. She was also employed to do maid service at The Red Apple Inn and for two families who lived on Eden Isle. It was 1970 when her life took on a new level of responsibility and a lot more excitement with the arrival of Ralph Waren Olmstead. Granny was asked to baby sit, care for Waren, and keep house. This was when Granny was absolutely Granny, and she loved it. As Waren grew-up, she was asked to come to the Funeral Home and clean. Her sweet manner and her dedication and pride in her work endeared her to all the Funeral Home employees, and they called her Granny. Granny moved to town in 1971 when Mr. French completed building her new house. We had a house warming party for her and got everything fixed-up the way she wanted it. In 1990, the doctor told her that she had a heart condition and that she would need bypass surgery, she said, "No surgery, take me home". She voluntarily stopped driving and sold her little grey Plymouth to Erick Engler and retired to her home. She has asked the Lord to let her live to see Waren grow-up and start a family. With the help of her family and Iris Bailey, who so lovingly assisted her in the home, she was able to live in her home, be happy and content, baking sugar cookies for her boys, and Waren Thomas and Sarah Grace, date nut bread for neighbors and friends, and gingerbread for Tom. Holidays and birthdays were special for Granny. For the dining table she would always send a flower arrangement. For the past thirty years, she was always treated with a birthday party at the Olmstead's. The past few years when she was unable to get out, the party was at her house with the neighbors and friends invited to come for cake and coffee. She loved her home so much and thanked the Lord for her blessings and looked forward to Sunday morning when she would watch the Methodist Church service at 10:00 on television. After being in the hospital for a few days in November of 2004, Dr. Sharp suggested to Granny that she should not be living alone and that arrangements would be made for her to live at the nursing home. This was the one thing that we had all prayed would not happen. Her room at Beverly Health was decorated with pictures of Waren, Tracy, Waren Thomas, Sarah Grace, Russ and Jessica's dogs, plants and flowers, but Granny did not like the nursing home, would not go to therapy, and did not like their food. Her 96th birthday was celebrated with her friends, Bob, Charlotte and Darryl, Berniece, Mrs. Hazelwood, Iris, and her family, with cake in her room, which was decorated with happy birthday cards, flowers, and balloons. February 23, Dr. Sharp admitted Granny to the hospital with the flu and pneumonia. March 1, 2005, Jesus called this sweet, generous and kind Granny to Heaven. She was preceded in death by her son, Robert, two brothers, and a sister. She leaves behind her family and her dear friends, who will miss her very much.
Services Were held on Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 10:00 am in the Olmstead Chapel with Bro. Jim French officiating. Interment followed in Woodland Memorial Park in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas.
Margarette Bowers Colclasure Allen, Granny Margarette as she was lovingly known to her family and friends, passed away peacefully March 1, 2005, due to the complications of the flu and pneumonia, in Baptist Medical Center at Heber Springs. Granny was born February 13, 1909, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, one of four children of Herman H. Bowers and Mertie Huffman Bowers.
She started at the age of fifteen to make her own way in life, and she had a very interesting life as she would reminisce and tell her stories of working as a maid and cleaning bank buildings, and private homes. While working for the owners of the Yellow Cab Company in Michigan, the family was entertaining Charles Lindberg, and she was invited to take a flight with him in his open cockpit airplane. While living in Arizona with her husband Micky Colclasure, who worked in the gold mines, they would go up into the mountains on weekends and look for gold and turquoise. It was also in Arizona that she learned to cook over an open fire pit like the Indian women did. With their gold nuggets and turquoise, she and Mickey moved from Arizona to Arkansas, settling in the Concord area and later to the Good Springs community. In the mid-sixties when she was doing maid service at the Barnett Motel, she met the Olmstead Family and started working for them as Russ's baby sitter and doing house work one day a week for them. She was also employed to do maid service at The Red Apple Inn and for two families who lived on Eden Isle. It was 1970 when her life took on a new level of responsibility and a lot more excitement with the arrival of Ralph Waren Olmstead. Granny was asked to baby sit, care for Waren, and keep house. This was when Granny was absolutely Granny, and she loved it. As Waren grew-up, she was asked to come to the Funeral Home and clean. Her sweet manner and her dedication and pride in her work endeared her to all the Funeral Home employees, and they called her Granny. Granny moved to town in 1971 when Mr. French completed building her new house. We had a house warming party for her and got everything fixed-up the way she wanted it. In 1990, the doctor told her that she had a heart condition and that she would need bypass surgery, she said, "No surgery, take me home". She voluntarily stopped driving and sold her little grey Plymouth to Erick Engler and retired to her home. She has asked the Lord to let her live to see Waren grow-up and start a family. With the help of her family and Iris Bailey, who so lovingly assisted her in the home, she was able to live in her home, be happy and content, baking sugar cookies for her boys, and Waren Thomas and Sarah Grace, date nut bread for neighbors and friends, and gingerbread for Tom. Holidays and birthdays were special for Granny. For the dining table she would always send a flower arrangement. For the past thirty years, she was always treated with a birthday party at the Olmstead's. The past few years when she was unable to get out, the party was at her house with the neighbors and friends invited to come for cake and coffee. She loved her home so much and thanked the Lord for her blessings and looked forward to Sunday morning when she would watch the Methodist Church service at 10:00 on television. After being in the hospital for a few days in November of 2004, Dr. Sharp suggested to Granny that she should not be living alone and that arrangements would be made for her to live at the nursing home. This was the one thing that we had all prayed would not happen. Her room at Beverly Health was decorated with pictures of Waren, Tracy, Waren Thomas, Sarah Grace, Russ and Jessica's dogs, plants and flowers, but Granny did not like the nursing home, would not go to therapy, and did not like their food. Her 96th birthday was celebrated with her friends, Bob, Charlotte and Darryl, Berniece, Mrs. Hazelwood, Iris, and her family, with cake in her room, which was decorated with happy birthday cards, flowers, and balloons. February 23, Dr. Sharp admitted Granny to the hospital with the flu and pneumonia. March 1, 2005, Jesus called this sweet, generous and kind Granny to Heaven. She was preceded in death by her son, Robert, two brothers, and a sister. She leaves behind her family and her dear friends, who will miss her very much.
Services Were held on Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 10:00 am in the Olmstead Chapel with Bro. Jim French officiating. Interment followed in Woodland Memorial Park in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas.
She started at the age of fifteen to make her own way in life, and she had a very interesting life as she would reminisce and tell her stories of working as a maid and cleaning bank buildings, and private homes. While working for the owners of the Yellow Cab Company in Michigan, the family was entertaining Charles Lindberg, and she was invited to take a flight with him in his open cockpit airplane. While living in Arizona with her husband Micky Colclasure, who worked in the gold mines, they would go up into the mountains on weekends and look for gold and turquoise. It was also in Arizona that she learned to cook over an open fire pit like the Indian women did. With their gold nuggets and turquoise, she and Mickey moved from Arizona to Arkansas, settling in the Concord area and later to the Good Springs community. In the mid-sixties when she was doing maid service at the Barnett Motel, she met the Olmstead Family and started working for them as Russ's baby sitter and doing house work one day a week for them. She was also employed to do maid service at The Red Apple Inn and for two families who lived on Eden Isle. It was 1970 when her life took on a new level of responsibility and a lot more excitement with the arrival of Ralph Waren Olmstead. Granny was asked to baby sit, care for Waren, and keep house. This was when Granny was absolutely Granny, and she loved it. As Waren grew-up, she was asked to come to the Funeral Home and clean. Her sweet manner and her dedication and pride in her work endeared her to all the Funeral Home employees, and they called her Granny. Granny moved to town in 1971 when Mr. French completed building her new house. We had a house warming party for her and got everything fixed-up the way she wanted it. In 1990, the doctor told her that she had a heart condition and that she would need bypass surgery, she said, "No surgery, take me home". She voluntarily stopped driving and sold her little grey Plymouth to Erick Engler and retired to her home. She has asked the Lord to let her live to see Waren grow-up and start a family. With the help of her family and Iris Bailey, who so lovingly assisted her in the home, she was able to live in her home, be happy and content, baking sugar cookies for her boys, and Waren Thomas and Sarah Grace, date nut bread for neighbors and friends, and gingerbread for Tom. Holidays and birthdays were special for Granny. For the dining table she would always send a flower arrangement. For the past thirty years, she was always treated with a birthday party at the Olmstead's. The past few years when she was unable to get out, the party was at her house with the neighbors and friends invited to come for cake and coffee. She loved her home so much and thanked the Lord for her blessings and looked forward to Sunday morning when she would watch the Methodist Church service at 10:00 on television. After being in the hospital for a few days in November of 2004, Dr. Sharp suggested to Granny that she should not be living alone and that arrangements would be made for her to live at the nursing home. This was the one thing that we had all prayed would not happen. Her room at Beverly Health was decorated with pictures of Waren, Tracy, Waren Thomas, Sarah Grace, Russ and Jessica's dogs, plants and flowers, but Granny did not like the nursing home, would not go to therapy, and did not like their food. Her 96th birthday was celebrated with her friends, Bob, Charlotte and Darryl, Berniece, Mrs. Hazelwood, Iris, and her family, with cake in her room, which was decorated with happy birthday cards, flowers, and balloons. February 23, Dr. Sharp admitted Granny to the hospital with the flu and pneumonia. March 1, 2005, Jesus called this sweet, generous and kind Granny to Heaven. She was preceded in death by her son, Robert, two brothers, and a sister. She leaves behind her family and her dear friends, who will miss her very much.
Services Were held on Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 10:00 am in the Olmstead Chapel with Bro. Jim French officiating. Interment followed in Woodland Memorial Park in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas.
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