Oma Fowler, daughter of the late Richard Gipson and Carrie Norman Gipson was born on October 15, 1922 in Parma, Missouri and departed this life on January 5, 2017 at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the age of 94.

Mrs. Fowler was a member of the Risen Church in Dexter.  She was a former employee of Elder Manufacturing in Bloomfield where she was a machinist and The Hickory Log Restaurant in Dexter where she was a cook.

She is survived by one son, Larry Fowler and wife Diana of Festus, Missouri; three daughters, Glenda Tumbleson and husband Wayne of Essex, Missouri, Wanda King and husband Kenneth of Jackson, Missouri and Geraldine “Gerri” Lowe and husband Larry of Granite City, Illinois; by one brother David Gipson of The State of California; by two sisters, Nina Stewart of Poplar Bluff, Missouri and Dorothy Duba of Jonesboro, Arkansas; by thirteen grandchildren, twenty-six great great-grandchildren and eleven great-great-grandchildren.

Besides her parents, she is preceded in death by two brothers, Harold Hickson and Marion Gipson; by two sisters, Delcie Waltrip and Louise Owens.

Friends may call at the Rainey Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Saturday, January 7, 2017 from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM. 

Services will be conducted on Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 3:00 PM with Rev. Danny Collins officiating. 

Interment will follow at the Hagy Cemetery.