Ouachita-Morehouse County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....BOWE, GEORGE C. "BUDDY"  January 27, 2009
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News Star World - Jan 29, 2009
GEORGE C. "BUDDY" BOWE 

Golden Funeral Home Bastrop, LA 

Funeral services for George C. "Buddy" Bowe are scheduled for 2:00 PM. 
Thursday January 29, 2009, at Mer Rouge Methodist Church with Rev. Sam Emanuel 
officiating. Interment will follow at the Bonne Idee Cemetery under the 
direction of Golden Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 5:00 PM until 
9:00 PM. Wednesday at Golden Funeral Home. Mr. Bowe, a resident of Mer Rouge 
and a retired International Paper Company employee, passed away Tuesday 
January 27, 2009 at St. Francis North Hospital. He was a member of Mer Rouge 
Methodist Church. Mr. Bowe was an avid fisherman, hunter, and loved to garden. 
Mr. Bowe was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. He entered the Navy in 1943 
and trained at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Chicago, IL. He 
served overseas at Leyte, Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Pearl Harbor, Panama, and Okinawa. 
He was awarded the Good Conduct Medal, the APC, the Philippine Liberation 
Medal, a Presidential Citation Award, and a Victory Bar for his service to 
America. He was discharged in 1946. Mr. Bowe is survived by his wife of 62 
years, Barbara Bowe; four children, Cecilia Bingham and husband Jimmy of 
Calhoun, LA, George C. Bowe, Jr. and wife Jean of Garland, TX, James David 
Bowe and wife Cyndi of Mer Rouge, LA, Steve Bowe and wife Julie of 
Prairieville, LA; two sisters, Lorine Clack, Mary Ruth Eckles, both of Mer 
Rouge; eleven grandchildren; eighteen great grandchildren; two great great 
grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his 
grandson, James David Bowe, Jr.; father, George Bowe; mother, Emma Bowe; and 
step-mother, Rosa Bowe. Serving as pallbearers will be Daniel Harris, William 
Hayden, Buddy Blackwell, Johnny Risher, Bill King, and Craig Moss. Memorial 
contributions may be made to the Mer Rouge Methodist Church

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