Calvin Fowler

Funeral services for Mr. Calvin Youvon Fowler, 88 of Algood, will be held Thursday May 15 at 1 p.m. in the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Bro. Greg Wright will officiate. Graveside services and interment, with Military Honors, will be Monday May 19 at 1 p.m. (P.S.T.) at Shafter Memorial Gardens in Shafter California. Mr. Fowler died suddenly Sunday afternoon May 11, 2014 at Cookeville Regional Medical Center. He was born August 4, 1925 in Chili, Oklahoma to the late James William (J.W.) and Mary Jessie Hart Fowler. Mr. Fowler served as the Chief Procurement Officer with the U.S. Department of Defense. After retiring from that position, he worked as a realtor in California and Tennessee. He was in the U.S. Navy during World War II where he served in the Pacific Theatre on the USS Ticonderoga. Mr. Fowler was a member of Delano Wasco Masonic Lodge #309 F&AM and Al Malaikah Shrine Temple in California. He attended Hilham Road Freewill Baptist Church. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Patricia "Pat" Ann Smith; two sisters, Jewell Cunningham and Ellen Corbin; and four brothers, Johnny, Roy, Ray, and James Paul Fowler. Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Patricia "Pat" Ruth Saunders Fowler (whom he married October 29, 1960 in DE Leon, TX); two daughters, Jan Lewis of Bakersfield, CA and Debra Fowler of Sparta; three sons, Jim Fowler of Sparta, Roy Fowler of Algood, and Bill (Tammy) Freeman of Lubbock, TX; six grandchildren, Tina Smartt, Taylor Freeman, Justin Smith, Christopher Smith, Danielle De Lacruz, and Dina Cellini; twelve great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Mr. Fowler's family will receive friends Wednesday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and Thursday from 12 noon until service time at the funeral home.