Pat Fowler

Patricia Louise (Gaither) Fowler, longtime resident of Salem, Oklahoma, passed from this life into her heavenly home on Monday night December 2, 2024 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma at the age of 93. She was born November 10, 1931 in Morris, Oklahoma. She was the third child of Thomas Alfred and Virginia Lucille (Baxendale) Gaither. When she was 5, the family moved to the Eugene, Oregon area for two years before returning to Oklahoma. She grew up in the Bartlett community and attended Dewar Public Schools. She graduated from Dewar High School in 1949. Patty Lou married the love of her life, Tommy Ross Fowler Sr., on March 17, 1950 at the parsonage of the First Baptist Church in Dewar, Oklahoma. They were married for over 39 years until his death November 24, 1989. Patricia worked as a teacher’s aide for 32 years in the Dewar Public Schools until her retirement in 1997. Mrs. Fowler was a member of the Salem Baptist Church having joined the church in the summer of 1950. Through the years at various times she served as a Sunday School teacher, Training Union teacher, Vacation Bible School teacher and Director, Women’s Missionary Union director and sang in the choir. Pat’s hobbies included crocheting, reading her Bible, working crossword puzzles, working jigsaw puzzles, listening to Bill Gaither Homecoming videos, and visiting with family and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Tommy Ross Fowler Sr.; her parents, Thomas Alfred and Lucille Gaither; her step mother, Mary Maud (Bonham) Gaither; her brothers, Arl Dean Gaither, Alfred Leroy “Bud” Gaither, Dale Carlos Gaither, Thomas Allen Gaither, Kenneth Eugene Bonham, Robert Gerald Bonham, and Joe Don Bonham; a sister, Mary Geraldine (Bonham) Skains; and grandchildren, Adam David Fowler and Adena Joe Fowler. She is survived by her sons, Tommy Ross Fowler Jr. and wife Paula of Edmond, Oklahoma, Timothy Alfred Fowler and wife Connie of Salem, Oklahoma, Robert Dale Fowler and wife Colleen of Salem, Oklahoma, and Joe Elam Fowler and wife Dena of Dewar, Oklahoma; her sister, Gertrude Elizabeth Robertson of Akron, Ohio; 12 grandchildren, 37 great grandchildren, 3 great great grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm Friday, December 6, 2024 at the Dewar First Baptist Church, Dewar, OK with Reverends Dale Huckabay, Matthew Fowler, Robert Fowler and Tommy Fowler Jr. officiating. Interment will follow at the Salem Cemetery under the direction of the Rogers Funeral Home. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Mark Fields, Kevin Underhill, David Snider, Everett Maylen, James “Butch” Fowler, John Fowler, Michael Fowler.and Jack Nation “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.” (II Timothy 4:7) “Well done good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” (Matthew 25:23) Funeral Service will be live streamed on the Dewar First Baptist Churches' facebook page.

Pat Fowler

November 10, 1931 - December 2, 2024