Class of 1916
Graduation Essay: “The Centenary of Shakespeare”

Birth: 18 Oct 1895, China Grove, Rowan County, North Carolina
Death: 22 Mar 1996, Archer, Alachua County, Florida

Parents:
Jacob Luther Bostian (1855-1925)
Georgia Anna Winecoff Bostian (1862-1911)

Siblings:
Mabel Roberta Bostian Gray (1882-1961)
Frederick H. Bostian
William Horton Bostian (1887-1968)
Basil Jacob Bostian (1890-1949)
Elizabeth Bostian Moorefield

Spouse: Guy Earlcourt Gowdy (1874-1971)
Marriage: 18 Sep 1924, Buncombe County, North Carolina

Child: Francis Linn Gowdy (1925-2008)

Burial: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Archer, Alachua County, Florida
Source: www.findagrave.com, #71885176.

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Rowan Record (China Grove, NC) 14 Jun 1918, p. 1.

Miss Dorothy Bostian received her degree of A B from Elizabeth College, Salem, VA., during commencement exercises last week.

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Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC), 25 Apr 1924, p. 6.

BILTMORE HOSPITAL ISSUES COMMENCEMENT INVITATIONS

The Mission Hospital has issued invitations to the graduating exercises which read as follows:

The board of trustees and the graduating class of Biltmore Hospital request the honor of your presence at the graduating exercises, class of 1924, Saturday evening, May third, nineteen hundred, twenty-four, eight-thirty o’clock, The Parish House, Biltmore, North Carolina. Reception following.

Mrs Borden Harriman, of Washington, D. C., who will come down for the Vanderbilt-Cecil wedding next Tuesday will remain over as guest of Mrs. Vanderbilt and make the address. The graduating class is composed of the following young ladies:

Misses Olive Ruth Burnette, Alpha Criddle, Annie Laurie Glenn, Kate Elizabeth Ramsaur, Nora Courtney Seaver, Nina Powell, Dorothy Louise Bostian.

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Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC), 18 Sep 1924, p. 7.

MISS BOSTIAN IS MARRIED TO MR. GUY GOWDY

Ot will be a surprise to many of Miss Dorothy Louise Bostian’s friends to learn of her marriage to Mr. Guy E. Gowdy, of Fort Pierce, Fla., which took place at high noon today at the Presbyterian church. The simple ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. R. F. Campbell. The couple approached the rostrum unattended. The bride was dressed in a smart street frock of midnight blue charmeen trimmed with grey, and wore a hat of a lighter shade of blue combined with silver. Shoes, gloves and other accessories complemented her costume and she carried a Colonial bouquet of delphinium and sweetheart roses. Mrs. Gowdy is a graduate nurse of Biltmore Hospital, having finished her training there the past spring. She was a resident of Biltmore and has many friends in Asheville.

The young couple left immediately after the ceremony for a honeymoon by motor through the mountains. After two or 3 weeks spent in various resorts throughout the western part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Gowdy will spend the early fall at a lodge owned by Mr. Gowdy on Pisgah. With the first of November, however, they will go to Florida and make their home in Forth Pierce.

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Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC), 24 Mar 1996, p. 14A

DOROTHY B. GOWDY

ARCHER, Fla. – Dorothy Bostian Gowdy, 100, died Friday, March 22, 1996.

Born in China Grove, N.C., she moved to Florida from Asheville, N.C. She was a retired school teacher and registered nurse. She was a member of Daughters of the American Revolution, Mayflower Society and St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Asheville.

Surviving are her son, F. Linn Gowdy of Archer; sister, Elizabeth B. Moorefield of Asheville; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Archer, Fla. with the Rev. Dr. James O. Jackson officiating.

Milam Funeral Home, Gainesville, Fla., is in charge of arrangements.