Born Dec. 8, 1900, in Coshocton, Wellington was a son of the late William Franklin and Emma (Seward) Mowery. He was a 1920 graduate of Warsaw High School and a graduate of Toledo University and Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C. He at­tended the Army Chaplain School at Harvard and was an ordained Minister of the United Methodist Church serving several Methodist Churches in Central Ohio including Prairie Chapel United Methodist Church.

In 1942, Mowery volunteered as Chaplain in the U.S. Army and serv­ed at Camp Stewart, Georgia and later in the South Pacific where he was hospital chaplain to American and Philippine troops in Australia and New Guinea. He held the rank of cap­tain in the U.S. Army during World War II. After returning to the states, he was assistant post chaplain at Crile General Hospital in Parma.

He divorced his first wife, Ruth Woods, in 1953. His second wife, Ruth Kissell passed away in 1974. On April 4, 1976, he married Jessie E. Smith who later passed away in 1993. He lived in Olympia, Washington during his later years until his death on December 31, 1987. He was buried at Prairie Chapel Cemetery in Coshocton, Ohio.