Champaign County OhArchives Obituaries.....Bowers, Helen M (Holloway) February 3, 2012
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The Springfield News-Sun
BOWERS, Helen M. 93, passed away peacefully at her daughter's home in Solon, 
Ohio on February 3, 2012. She was born in Brown County Ohio on December 6, 
1918, the daughter of the late Charles and Grace (nee: McFadden) Holloway. At 
an early age Helen and her family moved to Springfield, Ohio where she 
graduated from Springfield High School. She met her future husband at the 
Hillside Church of God, where she has been a life-long member. Helen was 
united in marriage to Robert E. Bowers on June 24, 1937. Helen spent her early 
years of marriage working along-side her husband to establish their farm in 
Champaign County and raising three children. The main loves of her life were 
her husband, her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and great 
great grandchild. She loved sewing, quilting, crocheting, and playing the 
organ. She was active in her church, teaching Sunday school and singing in the 
choir. For many years, she was an active 4-H Leader, teaching young girls the 
art of sewing. In the later years she became an accomplished insurance 
professional and an officer in the Professional Insurance Women's 
Organization. In their years of semi-retirement from farming, Helen and her 
husband loved to travel in their motorhome throughout the USA and Canada. 
Until she became ill in recent months, she was continually sewing, quilting, 
or crocheting treasures for family members and charity. Helen was preceded in 
death by her beloved husband of 65 years, Robert, her parents, Charles and 
Grace Holloway, her sisters, Mary Alice Clark, and Anna Lee Blevins, her 
brother, Wesley Holloway, two children, Joyce Ann McBean and Ronald Eugene 
Bowers. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Robert E. Jr. and Gaye 
Bowers; her daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Bob Evans; her grandchildren, 
Jack (Starlett) McBean, Jim (Belinda) McBean, Jerry (Sandy) McBean, Megan 
(Mike) Donohue, Brent ( Chris) Bowers, Brian (Kathy) Hurd, Beth Mattke, Todd 
(Cindy) Evans, Tom Evans, Debi (Gordon) Dickinson, Susan (John) Polatz, 23 
great grandchildren, Ethan, Paige, Wesley, Bethany, Amber, Dylan, Ryan, 
Caitlin, Aidan, Joseph, Ally, Zac, Paige Elizabeth, Isabel, Nick, Peter, JC, 
Emilie, Alexandria, Jason, Katherine, Keegan, Oliver, Tate,and great great 
grandchild, Reagan, and many nieces and nephews. Friends may call Sunday 
February 5, 2012, from 2:00 - 4:00 and 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the Jackson Lytle 
and Lewis Funeral Home, North Limestone Street, Springfield. Services will be 
held in the Hillside Church of God, Springfield, Monday, February 6, 2012, at 
10:30 a.m. with Rev. Michael Criner officiating. Burial will follow in Oakdale 
Cemetery, Urbana

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