Beaver County Times (Beaver, PA)

"It Happened Here...
1972... Myron E. Rowley of Aliquippa, an attorney for more than 25 years in Beaver County, dies after a long illness."

"Judge James Elliott Rowley
Brighton Township
Judge James Elliott Rowley, 78, of Brighton Township, died Tuesday evening, July 20, 2004, in the medical Center, Beaver.
Born April 8, 1926, in Tarentum, Pa., a son of the late Myron E. Esq. and Ethelwyn Beatty Rowley, he had been a resident of Beaver County for most of his life. He was a Senior Judge with Beaver County Court of Common Pleas and former President Judge of Superior Court of Pennsylvania. He first served as an attorney in Aliquippa with his father before being appointed Judge in 1966 and then becoming elected in 1967 with Beaver County Court of Common Pleas. He was elected to Superior Court and became president Judge in 1991. Judge Rowley retired to the Beaver County Court of Common Pleases in 1996 and has served as a Senior Judge until the present.
He was a member and elder of the First Presbyterian Church, Beaver, and was a veteran of the U.S. Army having served during World War II. Judge Rowley graduated from Aliquippa High School, and then graduated with honors from Washington & Jefferson College and the University of Pittsburgh Law School. He was a 51-year member of the Beaver County Bar Association, was a member of the Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations, the American Judicature Society, formerly served as chairman of the Pennsylvania Judiciary Inquiry and Review Board, and formerly served as a member of the Pennsylvania Committee of Judicial Ethics.
He will be sadly missed by his loving wife of 55 years, Ruth Agnew Rowley; a beloved son and daughter-in-law, Daniel Agnew, Esq. and Judith Rowley, Erie; two beloved grandchildren, James Elliott Rowley II and Catherine Ann Rowley, both of Erie; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Mary R. Bauer, in Ohio, and Nancy R. and Ralph Shattuck, in Arizona; his wife's brother, Robert J. and his wife, Esther Agnew, Erie; eight nieces and nephews, Kay A. Bonsall, in Ohio; Charles R. Agnew, Mechanicsburg, Pa.; John L. Agnew, in South Carolina; Nancy Ochenski, in Arizona; Richard Shattuck in Colorado, and Jonathan Bauer, Cynthia Bauer and Melissa Adams, all in Ohio, and 13 great-nieces and great-nephews. A service will be conducted Saturday at 10 a.m. in the First Presbyterian Church, Beaver. In the absence of his pastor, his associate pastor, the Rev. Henry Knapp, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Donald L. Baxter, of the Grace Episcopal Church, Lake City, Pa.
Entombment will follow in Beaver Cemetery Mausoleum..."