**Rachel Howitz Kowan** (16 December 1913 - 15 September 2000). Partner with her husband [[Michael Kowan]] in operating [[Kay's Book and Magazine Supermarket]] in downtown Cleveland. See the [[http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OCLWHi1259|finding aid]] for the Michael Kowan Family Papers at the Western Reserve Historical Society. 

A [[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57709867/kays-closing/|patronizing column]] by Ron Simon in the //Mansfield (Ohio) News-Journal// of 14 August 1983 notes the closing of Kay's sometime around the beginning of August, 1983 and that "Rachel Kowan, the bad-tempered lady who ran it, finally gave up."

See also Ohio Department of Health; Columbus, Ohio; //Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007//.