Family, Friends Gather to Say Goodbye to Camp Counselor

A prayer assembly was held June 29 for Jacob Daniel Fowler, 22, who died June 27 in Alachua County while camping with some 550 children from Bell Shoals Baptist.

Fowler drowned June 27 after a snorkeling accident at Camp Kulaqua. His father, Bill, brother, Matt, and wife, Diana, served with him as counselors at the camp, which had programs for children from elementary through senior high school.

More than 100 people gathered in prayer for Fowler.

Fowler will be buried at Serenity Meadows Memorial Park, Funeral Home and Crematory, 6919 Providence Road in Riverview. Visitation is July 2 at Bell Shoals Baptist Church Chapel, 2102 Bell Shoals Road in Brandon, from 4 to 5 p.m. A memorial service, also at Bell Shoals Baptist Church, is at 5 p.m. Sunday worship July 3 at Bell Shoals Baptist is at 9:15 a.m. and 11 a.m., at which time Pastor Rummage will deliver the sermon, “Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?"

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