William Fowler Obituary

FOWLER, William Entered into eternal rest on the evening of January 19, 2009, Commander William Earl Fowler, USN (Ret.), husband of Eudora Seabrook Fowler, peacefully ended 86 years of a wonderful life. The relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. William E. "Bill" Fowler are invited to attend the funeral services of the former, Saturday, January 24, 2009 at one-thirty o'clock in The Chapel at Bishop Gadsden . Interment, St. Johns Episcopal Churchyard. Mr. Fowler was born July 15, 1922 in Pelzer, South Carolina, the son of Andrew Jackson Fowler and Sadie Jordan Fowler. He attended Furman University, The University of South Carolina, and Columbia University. He later graduated from Old Dominion University. He entered the United States Navy during World War II and served in the Pacific Theater. He was in the first assault wave on Iwo Jima, participated in the landings on Okinawa, and witnessed the surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay. After the war, he continued a naval career and commanded a mine division and the destroyer USS Dyess (DDR 880). Upon retiring from the Navy, he began a second career as an educator, serving in both the Virginia and South Carolina school systems. He was one the first residents of modern Kiawah Island and very active in the formation of the Town of Kiawah. He served as the first Town Administrator and was a charter member of the Kiawah-Seabrook Exchange Club. He is survived by his wife of 63 years of Charleston, SC; two sons, William Earl Fowler, Jr. and his wife Catherine of Warner Robins, GA and Alan Jackson Fowler and his wife Pamela of Kiawah Island, SC; three granddaughters, Catherine Seabrook, Victoria Townsend, and Sara Elizabeth; two sisters, Jean Lindsey and Roberta Kuykendall, both of Greenville, SC and many nieces and nephews. Memorials may be made to Johns Island Presbyterian Church, 2550 Bohicket Road, Johns Island, SC 29455 or St. John's Church, Johns Island, 3673 Maybank Hwy., Johns Island, SC 29455. Arrangements by J. HENRY STUHR, INC., DOWNTOWN CHAPEL. Visit our guestbook at www.charleston.net/deaths.