Members of the ADCA—

I am sorry to tell you that Dr. Stewart Fowler passed away on Thursday, March 8, 2007, after a long illness. Dr Fowler was as instrumental as any one has ever been to Devon cattle breed improvement in this country and the world. Dr. Fowler was hospitalized on February 15th, had surgery on his right lung on the 19th to remove fluid and was in the ICU at Redmond Regional Hospital for two weeks before being transferred to Floyd Medical Center’s “Specialty Hospital” (Long Term Acute Care Unit: L-TAC Unit). He had developed Pneumonia and a bacterial infection in that right lung. The doctors also speculated that he had a small stroke during surgery that had he survived, would have left him with a feeding tube as well as a lung tube for drainage for the remainder of his life, in a Nursing Home. We are grateful that he was able to bypass that!

A Memorial Service was held on Saturday, March 10th. It was a beautiful Memorial with his WWII memoirs beside a trip-photo frame showing him as a young sailor, a lieutenant, and later on as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

Displayed also was a large framed photo that was presented to him by faculty and staff at Berry College when he retired in 1987. The photo showed Stewart gazing into the face of a cow with one hand behind her head and the other placed lovingly around her neck. The love was evident and truly showed on both of their faces. This was his life.

Dr. Stewart Hampton Fowler Sr., age 84, of 711 Trove Drive, Rome, Ga., died Thursday March, 8th in a local hospital following a long illness.

Dr. Fowler was born July 20, 1922 in St. Paul, Minn., son of Talbert B. Stewart Sr. and Doris Ernestine Blitch Stewart. Following service with the US Navy during World War II, Dr. Fowler received a Bachelors Degree in Animal Husbandry from the University of Florida, Masters degree in Animal Breeding from Auburn University and his Doctorate in Reproductive Physiology from Texas A&M University. His professional career included the University of Maryland 1954-55, Washington State University 1955-58, Louisiana State University 1958-69, Mississippi State University 1969-72, Texas A&M University 1972-81, and Berry College from 1981 until retirement in 1987.

Dr. Fowler also served on the Board of Directors for the W.H. Stewart Ranch of Bartow, Fla., was the Executive Secretary of International Texon Cattle Association, Devon Cattle Association, Agrisers Foundation, the American Water Buffalo Foundation, and was an accomplished author, with over 300 articles published in technical and livestock journals and magazines, and a textbook The Marketing of Livestock and Meat and Beef Production.

Dr. Fowler is survived by his wife Sara Winona Williams Fowler; children, Stewart Hampton Fowler Jr; James Jackson Fowler, Amy Margaret Fowler Hall, Lisa Maxine Jayne Greenslit; and grandchildren, Corey Fowler, Rachel Jean Fowler, Kelsey Faith Hall, Hampton James Hall, Katie Jayne Greenslit, William Nathan Greenslit, Naomi Jayne Young and Jacob Eli Young.