The Iberia Sentinel, October 1936 There are some apparent discrepancies/errors in the following obituary. Her death certificate lists her birth ad 19 Aug 1870. If she had been married on the date shown here, she would have been 10 years old. Informant on her death certificate was Lucy Rowden Dake. Her husband's death certificate lists his date of death as 3 Mar 1915. I don't write them; I just type them. Mrs. Mary Rowden, who had been in poor health for some time, died of a heart attack last Friday here at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Dake, with whom she was making her home. Mrs. Mary (Burks) Rowden was born in Iberia August 19, 1871, being 65 years, two months and four days old at the time of her death. She was married to Joseph Rowden Nov. 8, 1880, and to this union seven children were born, two dead and five living, Mrs. Daisey Hickey, Topeka, Kansas; Pat Rowden, Whiting, Indiana, Mrs. George Dake, Iberia, Missouri, Mrs. Pearl Henson, Dixon, Missouri, and Otto Rowden, St. Anthony, Missouri. At the age of thirteen she became a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Rowden died March 3, 1914. Mrs. Rowden was the last surviving member of the Burks family, her two brothers having passed away several years ago. For many years prior to the death of Mr. Rowden, they owned and operated a farm a few miles northeast of Iberia. Since that time Mrs. Rowden has been spending a good portion of her time among her children. Funeral services conducted by reverend Bill Akery of Dixon, were held in the Iberia Church of the Nazarene Sunday afternoon, after which interment was made in the Bray's Cemetery four miles east of Iberia.