Sarah Livingston Fowler, gracious in manner and steadfast in faith, died at her home January 10, 2013. She was 87 years old. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, January 13, at Main Street Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. David Strain officiating, assisted by soloist, Chad Graeber. The visitation at the church starts at 1:30 p.m. Burial will follow the service at the Liberty Hall cemetery. Gunter and Peel Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Fowler was born in Yazoo City on May 6, 1925, to the late Samuel Hilary Livingston and Sarah Armstrong Livingston. Moving to Columbus in 1930, she graduated from Lee High School in 1943. After a year at Mississippi State College for Women, she enrolled at the University of Tennessee and graduated in 1947. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and one of the Seven Beauties of Tennessee. At UT, she met U.S. Navy Commander W.S. Monk Fowler, and they married in Columbus at First Presbyterian Church (now Main Street Presbyterian Church) on December 20, 1947. The Fowlers lived in Lexington, Tenn., and Corinth, then moved to Kosciusko in 1950 after Mr. Fowler and his father-in-law bought the Dr. Pepper Bottling Works. In 1972, the family moved to Lowndes County to continue the slow restoration of the Armstrong family home, Liberty Hall. The home, occupied by the Ervin-Armstrong family since it was built in 1832, was for many years part of the Columbus Pilgrimage. As a member of Main Street Presbyterian Church, Mrs. Fowler was president and treasurer of the Women of the Church. She was a member of the Bernard Romans DAR and The Pioneer Society. She was preceded in death by her husband, who died July 27, 1990, and her daughter, Sarah Frances Fowler Hazard, who died February 25, 2000. Survivors include her son, William Hilary Fowler (Teresa); her son-in-law, George Stephenson Hazard, Jr. (Marian); four grandsons, William Matthew Fowler (Emily), Benjamin Brown Fowler, George Stephenson Hazard III (Holly) and James Armstrong Hazard; and two great-grandchildren, William Charles Fowler and Anna Crawford Fowler. She is also survived by her brother, Samuel Hilary Livingston, Jr. (Velma). Others survivors include two nephews, Samuel Hilary Livingston, III of Baltimore and James Clifton Livingston of Plano, Texas; and one niece, Luann Livingston Yarbrough (Walker), of Atlanta. Pallbearers will be Grover Allgood, Jimmy Livingston, Sam Livingston, Bill Nelson, Bob Raymond and Walker Yarbrough. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Palmer Home for Children (P.O. Box 746, Columbus, MS 39703) or to the missionary work of Main Street Presbyterian Church (P.O. Box 26, Columbus, MS 39703).
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