Hugh C. Fowler, 51, of 3824 Southwestern Boulevard, manager of the Dallas branch office of the Texas Prudential Life Insurance Company, died early Thursday at a local hospital after an illness of about ten days.

Fowler was born and reared in Forney, son of the late Dr. and Mrs. E.M. Fowler, and lived in Texas all his life. He had lived in Dallas eight years and previously had worked in Dallas while living in Forney.

He was a graduate of Austin College, Sherman, and he married Miss Hazel Miller, Sherman. Surviving are his wife, a son, Sgt. Hugh C. Fowler, Jr., Army Air Corps, Perrin Field, and a daughter, Miss Evelyn Fowler, Dallas.

Fowler was a member of the Highland Park Methodist Church and was a thirty-second-degree Mason. He won the silver loving cup offered by the Dallas Association of Life Underwriters for the greatest number of applications submitted by a representative during Financial Independence Week, March 19 to 24, 1934, at which time he was a member of the Dallas agency of the Great Southern Life Insurance Company of Houston.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday in Forney at the First Methodist Church, with the Rev. Paul Stephenson of Wichita Falls officiating. Burial will be in Forney. Pallbearers will be D.L. Yandell, Ennis Moore, Guyton McKellar and O.W. Reagin, all of Forney, and E.E. Dale and James T. Rhea, Dallas.

Note: Hugh C. Fowler, Sr. is buried at Hillcrest Cemetery. He was born 14 Jan 1894 and died 21 Jun 1945.