Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Dr. Don Bowen
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   BOWEN
   Dr. Don BOWEN was born in 1944 at Henryetta (no date was given). He
   died of an anuerism December 19, 1984, at his home. Two funeral
   services were held. On December 31, a eulogy was deliverd at Temple
   Israel in Tulsa. Later at his Indian funeral at Weogufkee Church near
   Hanna, Creek Principal Cief Cox spoke. The Services was attended by
   Indian Health Service and Creek Nation Tribal officials, as well as
   many family and friends. Interment was at Weogufkee Cemetery alongside
   his grandparents.
   He attended school at Dustin, graduated high school from Semnole,
   received his bachelor's degree in pharmacology from the University of
   Oklahoma, entered Harvard University Medical School, and graduated in
   1976 as a Doctor of Medicine. He received board certification in
   Family Practice after serving residency in Glen Cove, NY. In 1979 he
   began work at the Creek Nation Community Hospital in Okemah. In
   1983-84, he had served a term as President of the American Indian
   Physician's Association. He was a member of the Okfuskee County Board
   of Health, secretary of the Okfuskee County Medical Society and member
   of the American Medical Association and the Association of American
   Indian Physicians. At the time of his death, he was on the medical
   staff at Creek Nation Sapulpa Health Clinic.
   He is survived by his widow, Michal Ann BOWEN; three daughters, Anna
   BOWEN, Emily BOWEN and Jenny BOWEN; and his mother, Mary COLBERT of
   Seminole. Mary Colbert has donated his medical books and tapes to the
   Sapulpa Clinic and requests that memorials be made to the American
   Indian Physician's Association Scholarship Fund.