Bill & Audrea Gowan

William Richard “Bill” Gowan was born in Morgantown WV on October 9, 1924, and was raised by his grandparents William H. and Victoria Taylor and his aunt Nancy Cassell at the Homeplace in Dunmore. Audrea Katherine Sheets Gowan was born in Cass WV on July 28, 1928; she was the daughter of Henry and Velma Sheets and granddaughter of David and Addie Sheets and Jim and Lena Galford and was raised on the Sheets family farm in Green Bank. Bill and Audrea were married on July 30, 1947, and were inseparable until Bill’s passing on June 18, 2015; they became inseparable once again when Audrea passed on May 17, 2020. Memorial services were held for each of them in Tennessee where they resided at the time of their passings. They are survived by their daughter Loretta (Jim) Smith; granddaughter Jamie (Matt) McClellan; grandson Mike (Andrea) Smith; great-grandchildren Sebastian, Isaac, and Lucas McClellan and Monroe and Dinah Smith; sisters Daisy Chapman and Wanda Griffin, brother Jim (Judy) Ridgley. A graveside service for Bill and Audrea will be held at the Arbovale Cemetery at 11:00am on Saturday, July 30, 2022, which would have been their 75th wedding anniversary. At their request, their cremains will be buried together, next to the grave of their infant daughter Vivian Leigh Gowan. Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home in Arbovale is in charge of arrangements. Please send online condolences by visiting www.WallaceandWallaceFH.com