Pawnee Rock

C. Walter McCowan, 71, died April 3, 2012, at Great Bend Regional Hospital, Great Bend.

He was born June 10, 1940, in Audrain County, Missouri, the son of Junior and Nadine Burnett McCowan.  A resident of Pawnee Rock since 1983 previously of West Texas, he was owner and operator of Santa Fe Mercantile Antiques.

He served in the National Guard.

On August 15, 1997, he married Linda Stoki Burch at Larned.  She survives.

Other survivors include two daughters, Sara Boyer, Rush, Colorado, and Dorian Frances, Pawnee Rock, two brothers, Carl Ray McCowan, Thompson, Missouri and John McCowan, Fulton, Missouri, two sisters, Rheba Ryan and Marjorie Hudson both of Centrailia, Missouri, three grandsons and one granddaughter.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one son, Marty Ray McCowan. 

Memorial service will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 7, 2012, at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 5851 Eisenhower, Great Bend, with Bishop Greg Perez presiding. Cremation took place.  There is no visitation.

Memorials may be sent to Healing Hearts Ranch in care of Morell Funeral Home, P.O. Box 124, Larned, Kansas, 67550-0124.

Condolences may be left at www.morellfuneralhomellc.com.