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(erielack) Obituary: Mr. Cowles
Kenneth William Cowles, 92, died on Feb. 12, 2006, at home in Rindge, NH, where he had lived for barely six months. He had prevoiusly lived in Avalon Beach, FL.
Unfortunately, the local funeral home here botched his obituary and the local newspaper printed it, saying he worked from 1930 to 1937 for the Panama Canal Railroad, served in the US Army and Army Air Corps in WWII and, after working for Continental Can and Chevrolet, spent 43 years as an engineer for the "Erie & Lockawanna (sic) Northwestern" and a member of the "Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firefighters."
Willard Jost, formerly of Franklin Lakes, NJ, and nw living in Dublin, NH caught this mess and wrote a letter to the editor. The response: "We printed what the funeral home provided."
Sic transit veritas. A veteran engineman deserves better.
So, to any who may have known him, Kenneth William Cowles, who spent 43 years with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and then the Erie Lackawanna, has transferred to the Big Rock Candy Mountain line where the trains run themselves and all he has to do is sit and enjoy the ride.
Randy Brown
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