Miss Cowling of T. C. Faculty Dies
Miss Mary Jo Cowling, for 18 years a members of the North
Texas State Teachers College geography faculty, died at her
home, 1115 West Hickory Street Saturday afternoon at 3
o'clock from a heart attack following a brief illness,
Funeral services were held Monday at 10 o'clock in the
First Presbyterian Church, with Rev. H. G. Goxiykoontz,
pastor, in charge. The body was taken overland to Wichita
Falls for burial in Riverside cemetery Monday afternoon.
Miss Cowling was born In Nashville, Ark., and came to
Denton in 1924 as a member of the Teachers College faculty,
she held B. A. and M. A. degrees from George Peabody
College. Tenn., and had studied at Columbia University New
York. Before coming here she had taught at the
demonstration school of Peabody College, at West Texas
State Teachers College and at the Normal College
Natchiloches, La. She was a member of the Benjamin Lyon
Chapter. D. A. R.. Denton Branch of A. A. U. W., Texas
State Teachers Association, Texas Academy of Science,
National Geographic Society and the American Geographic
Society. Her interests included Americanization work among
adult foreigners, and she had conducted student tours to
Natchez, Miss., New Mexico and various parts of Texas. She
is survived by her mother, Mrs. Ada Cowling, with whom she
lived here; two brothers, L. E. Cowling of Houston and
Kelly Cowling of Corpus Christi, and one sister, Mrs.
George W. Truitt of Wichita Falls. Pallbearers for the
service in Denton were B. B Harris, Walter Hanson, J. W.
Pender, G. A. Odoin, L. W. Newton, and L. A. Sharp.2
Sources:
- "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch
- Denton Record-Chronicle, 26 Oct 1942, Mon, Page 5
