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Contact Us

President 

Don Lee Gowen
1310 Cantwell Ave. SW
Decatur, Alabama 35601
Home:  256-350-7067
Office:  256-350-7824
Fax:  256-350-3955
Cell:  256-309-1279
Email:  DonGowen@gowencemetery.com
Email:  dlgowen@aol.com

Vice-President
Bill Swan
1101 Cane Creek Road
Dunlap, TN  37327
Home:  423-949-6183
Cell:  423-667-1060
Email:  sportcolbs@aol.com

Secretary-Treasurer

Sylvia (Gowen)Gardenhire
3171 Waterfront Drive
Chattanooga, TN  37419
Home:  423-710-2876

Cell:  423-413-9951
Email:  sylviagardenhire1@gmail.com

Board of Directors 

STANDING COMMITTEES 

Note:  The Association President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer shall automatically serve as members of all Standing Committees.

HISTORICAL – MEMBERSHIP – PUBLIC REATIONS COMMITTEE 

Chairperson:  Terry Kennemer
Members of Committee:  Donna Kennemer, Jerry Hice,  Beverly Marks
Summary of Duties and Responsibilities of Committee

*Location, positioning, and marking of individual grave sites within the cemetery;
*Maintenance of a scaled drawing of the cemetery showing the location of known
  individual graves, and a listing of all known and verified individuals interned in
  the cemetery;
*Responsible for the solicitation and promotion of membership in the Association,
  maintaining membership listings, and annual renewal of memberships;
*Responsible for planning, solicitation, and the promotion of funding for the
  Association from all potential sources;
*Responsible for solicitation, receiving, and compiling of genealogical information
  from all known sources on James Burns Gowen and descendants, and the
  development and maintenance of a data base for all information thus obtained or
  received.  All information obtained, received, collected shall be compiled and
  published as an on-going project of the Association in systematic form to the
  Association Web site:  www.gowencemetery.com;
*Responsible for all media and public relations activities of the Association. 

RESTORATION AND PERPETUAL CARE COMMITTEE 

Chairperson: Bill Swan
Members of Committee:  Sylvia Gardenhire, Terry Kennemer, Terry Horn, Bud Mullins, Ralph Kennemer, Donna Kennemer, Beverly Marks and Don Gowen
Summary of Duties and Responsibilities of Committee
*Responsibility for the restoration of the cemetery;
*Compiling and maintaining lists of volunteers for cemetery work projects;
*Obtain required materials, supplies, and equipment necessary to accomplish
  desired tasks in the cemetery;
*Providing for care, conditioning, repairs, replacement, and preservation of head
  stones and markers of individual graves in the cemetery;
*Acquisition of and placement of head stones or identifying markers for individuals
  interned in the cemetery for which there were no original stones or markers;
*Preparation and the maintenance of the cemetery grounds on a perpetual basis;
*Enhancement to the cemetery by the installation of quality fencing for appearance
  and security;
*Provide gating and access to the cemetery;
*Provide quality signage for the cemetery;
*Development and implementation of fund raising activities to fund a trustee
  account of expenditures for perpetual care of the cemetery.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Members of Committee:  President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer 

This Committee shall be responsible for the day-to-day operations, activities, and decisions of the Association as established by the documents of organization for the Association and not reserved to the Board of Directors by the By-Laws.

 


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