Frank William Bouvia
Born: April 5th, 1873
Died: August 28th, 1923
Obituary
Frank Bouvia, 49, years old, for many years a resident of Burlington, succumbed to tuberculosis in Sunnyslope sanitorium in Ottumwa, where he has been a patient since last May. The body will be brought to Burlington for burial.
Frank Bouvia was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Tric Bouvia. His father, Captain Bouvia, was a well-known riverman and came to Burlington when Frank was a boy and opened a row boat livery here. Later the Bouvias engaged in the pleasure launch business, first with a steam launch and later with motor launches, pioneering here in this style of craft. Frank Bouvia’s health failed him some time ago and it was in the hope of regaining it that he became a patient at the Ottumwa hospital. He was married in 1900 to Miss Lova Olson, who died in 1915.
He is survived by one daughter, Melva; one brother Fred Bouvia and four sisters, Mrs. Alice Webster, Mrs. Susie Cross, and Mrs. Amelia Sandidge, of Chicago and Mrs. Jennie Hiltz, of this city, where Fred Bouvia also resides.
Funeral services of Frank W. Bouvia will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock from the Unterkircher Funeral Home, Rev. Robert Neumann officiating. Burial will be in Aspen Grove Cemetery.