Robert David McGowan

Glover Funeral Home of Eufaula

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Posted by: Glover Funeral Home
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334-687-5725
Date: Apr 29 2024 8:53 AM

Robert David McGowan, a resident of Eufaula, Alabama died unexpectedly Saturday, April 27, 2024. He was 51 years old.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. at Clayton Baptist Church in Clayton with Rev. Bill Brown, Rev. Shane Traylor, and Father David Shoemaker officiating and Glover Funeral Home directing. The burial will follow in the Clayton Cemetery. A visitation will be held Monday, April 29, 2024, at Glover Funeral Home in Eufaula from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Flowers will be accepted, or donations can be made to one’s favorite charity.

Robert was born August 20, 1972, in Eufaula, Alabama to Robert Bernard and Callie Elizabeth (Betty) Thomas McGowan, of Georgetown, Ga. He was a graduate of Eufaula High School.  He was owner of Eufaula Surveying since 2014 and had previously worked there for years under the tutelage of Bob Green.   Robert loved hunting, fishing, and the outdoors.  He loved coaching and participating in both his boys’ baseball and other sports.  However, his favorite past time was spending time with his wife and children in whatever activities they were involved in, or simply sitting around a fire with his closest friends.    

He is preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Henry and Flora Thomas and paternal grandparents, John and Georgia McGowan.

Survivors other than his parents include his wife, Heather Kent McGowan of Eufaula; and their blended family which they both raised with much love, two sons, Parker Drew McGowan and John Luke McGowan both of Eufaula, two daughters, Anna Kathryn (Peyton) Shankle, Fayetteville, NC, and Samantha Baylor Martin, Eufaula; a brother, Thomas Drew McGowan (Vickie Wyatt), Gulfport, Mississippi; a sister and brother in law, Mary Elizabeth (Mike) Boyce, Port St. Joe, FL.; a father and mother in law, Lee and Donna Kent Fenn, Clayton; and numerous nieces and nephews. 

Active pallbearers will be Tom McGowan, Tommy Redding, Trey Washington, Stevie Gover, Jamey Woods, Tory Walker, Russell Strickland, and Bill Railey.

Honorary pallbearers will be the Lakeside Chiefs Varsity Baseball players and coaches.

Glover Funeral Home of Eufaula was entrusted with the arrangements. (334) 687-5725. Please sign the guestbook online at www.gloverfuneral.com

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