Ira Edward Fowler

Services: A Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 10:00 AM in the Hollywood Church of the Nazarene, Leonardtown, MD with Rev. Joseph Hoopengardner officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation: Viewing/Visitation will be held on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 from 5:00 - 8:00 PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, where Prayers will be said at 7:00 PM. Ira Edward Fowler, Sr., 81, of Hollywood, MD formerly of Wheelersburg, OH died June 4, 2006 in Hollywood, MD. Born February 8, 1925 in Edgewater, MD he was the son of the late Gary Albert and Mary Virginia Miller Fowler. He was the loving husband of Naomi Thompson Fowler for sixty one years whom he married on December 31, 1944 in Hollywood, MD. He is survived by his children: Shirley Fowler Hutchinson and her husband Tom of Louisburg, NC, Vivian Fowler Leon and her husband Robert of Raleigh, NC and Ira Edward Fowler, Jr. and his wife Sue of Wheelersburg, OH; siblings: Robert Fowler of Louisville, KY and Dorothy Hardy of Severna Park, MD and grandchildren: Rachel Hage, Jonathan Leon, Emily Leon, Ira Fowler, III and Samuel Fowler. He was preceded in death by his daughter: Sandra Sue Fowler and siblings: Virginia, Gary, Joseph, Marion, Mary, David, Albert, Thomas, John, Katie, James, Emily, Walter and Paul. Rev. Fowler moved to St. Mary's County in 1941 where he was a minister for the Church of the Nazarene. The family received friends on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home. A Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 10:00 AM in the Hollywood Church of the Nazarene, Hollywood, MD with Rev. Joseph Hoopengarner officiating and Rev. Tim Grose co-officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Robert Leon, Drew Thompson, Jack Wiley, Bob La Duca, Don Rogers and Larry Joy. Contributions may be made to the American Bible Society 1865 Broadway, New York, NY 10023. Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.