Phyllis Marie Winter

Phyllis Marie Winter, daughter of James and Mildred Matthews and a native of Los Angeles, died peacefully in her sleep August 8 at her home in Fallbrook, Calif. She was 91 years old.

A 1942 graduate of Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, Mrs. Winter was employed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Los Angeles. In 1943, she married ENS Ormond Craig Fowler, USNR who had earned his Navy wings one year after the Pearl Harbor attack. After WWII service and other assignments, LCDR Fowler flew in the Berlin Air Lift and on maritime patrol missions in the Pacific.

LCDR Fowler was lost at sea in 1953 when hi...