Richard Rowley, whose body was brought from Sioux Falls, S.D., to our Ft. Calhoun (Nebraska) cemetery to be placed near his first wife, one of his children and his brother, Charles, was a son of a pioneer harness-maker who forty years ago owned the property now belonging to Charles Rathjen and later had his shop where the city hotel ice house now stands.

Richard, when the Omaha & Northern railroad reached Blair, was given charge of the pump station then built at Mills (now DeSoto) station and after several months became fireman and then engineer on the road, living in the old Reeves house, now the property of Otto Frahm. He then got a position on the U. P. railroad and in a collision, where he stuck to his post, lost two fingers. He has a nephew here, Ralph Rowley, a son of his deceased brother, Charles, and many friends who respected him highly. This writer knew him as a steady, industrious, young man worthy of the advancement he made from time to time.

Owing to the abandoned Omaha train, the funeral was postponed until Friday, when four men had to shovel snow and the procession went through the old Kuony field to reach the cemetery. The flowers were many and beautiful. A large broken wheel came from his fellow engineers on the U.P. railroad. He leaves a wife and five sons, one of them by his first wife and four by the second. One son, Frank, is in Brazil.

Among those who attended from Sioux Falls and Omaha were his wife and three sons, E. V. Rowley, Alfred Rowley and Louis Rowley, and two step-daughters, Mrs. E. H. Loffhagen and Mrs. S. A. Cosford.

W.H. Woods held short services at the cemetery.

Realizing the delays and labor found necessary in conducting the funeral, the family one and all wish to thank the citizens of Ft. Calhoun.

Also published in the Omaha World Herald

Richard Rowley died Sunday at the home of his son, E. V. Rowley, Sioux Falls, S. D. He was 64 years old and had been employed by the Union Pacific railway as a locomotive engineer for thirty-five years. He was on the retired list. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 38. The funeral services will be held at Hulse & Riepens’s undertaking parlors, 709 South Sixteenth Street, March 14, 1912, at 11 a.m. The body will be buried at Ft. Calhoun, Neb. He leaves a son in Omaha, J. Rowley.