Last rites for Glen Earl Dowell, 27, Pennsylvania Shipyards employee and former Beaumont High School football player who died Tuesday were to be held today at 3 p.m. in Calvary Baptist church. The Roberts Undertaking company was to direct burial in Magnolia cemetery. The Revs. Joe Z. Tower and J.V. Stovall of Beaumont and F.W. Goss of Port Arthur were to officiate at the rites. A star on the purple gridiron, Mr. Dowell also was president of the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes while in high school. He later attended Allen academy. At one time he won the state AAU boxing championship. Surviving are his wife, the former Helen Brainard; parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Dowell; and a brother, Herbert.
