Flora W. McDowell gave up her struggle with life and Alzheimer’s on September 9, 2017 and went home to be with the Lord. She passed peacefully from this world into the next with family by her side. She was born in Chatham Township, NJ, the youngest of seven girls, to Harold Weeks of Barbados and Mary Anderson Weeks of Glasgow Scotland. They had a dairy farm there where Flora and her sisters worked hard and had a lot of fun too. Floras favorite job was driving the tractor during the corn harvest. She graduated top of her class from Chatham High School at age 16 and wanted to go on to Parsons School of Design in NYC to study Interior Design but Mom and Pop wouldn’t let their baby girl go off to the city at such a young age. Soon after her graduation the war started and her folks sold the farm and moved to West Palm Beach, FL where Flora quickly got a job in the bookkeeping department at First National Bank of Palm Beach.
Flora was a woman of great faith. She loved the Lord with all her heart along with her family, Bible and gardening. She collected antiques, worked as an Interior Decorator and back in the early days, won prizes for her beautiful and delicious cakes and pies. She was blessed to live in many beautiful places after leaving NJ such as the Village of Speculator, NY in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains, Sedona, AZ, Cape Porpoise, ME and Alamos Mexico.
She is survived by her son Timothy J. McDowell of Daytona Beach, FL, her daughter Suzanne M. Boucher and son in-law, Alfred M. Boucher of Kingston, MA , three grandchildren, Courtney Towe, Maxfield D. Boucher and Izabella R. Boucher and two great grandchildren, Eden M. Towe and Abigail Towe. She is preceded by loving husband and WWII Veteran, Howard J. McDowell, formerly of McDowell’s Heating and Air Conditioning in Westfield, NJ and son David H. McDowell.

If, in lieu of flowers, you would rather donate to one of Floras favorite charities, here are three that she and her late husband, Howard, believed strongly. Samaritans Purse, Prison Fellowship and Deerfoot Lodge of Speculator, NY.
Her sweet and loving personality and caring heart will be dearly missed by those she leaves behind until we join her in the next life. What a day of rejoicing that will be!!
A service for Flora will be held at North River Community Church 334 Old Oak St. Pembroke, MA on Saturday September 30 at 10:30.