CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Ira "Glenn" Bowers, 8 Jan 2004 ----¤¤¤---- Ira "Glenn" Bowers, 90, Nave Street, Elizabethton, devoted wife, loving mother, caring grandmother and friend, has entered into a new city, and a new life, with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. While saddened to see her go and longing for her to stay, there were other eyes watching her coming and other voices to take up the glad shout: Here she comes! Mrs. Bowers died Thursday, January 8, 2004, at Hermitage Health Center following an extended illness. A native of Carter County, she was the daughter of the late Brown L. and Bessie M. Bowers. She was also preceded in death by her husband, William Crumley Bowers, two brothers, Robert Carl Bowers and Millard Filmore Bowers, a sister, Laura Belle Bowers, a stepson, Linard Skyler Bowers, and a stepdaughter, Ella Mae Buckles. Mrs. Bowers was a member of Roan Street Free Will Baptist Church and was a homemaker. Survivors include a sister, Gladys Cole, Roan Mountain; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Pauline Taylor, Pansy and Bobby Rouse, and Oma Jean and Bobbie Woods, all of Elizabethton; and a stepdaughter, Mary Nidiffer, Elizabethton. Numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great- grandchildren, nieces and nephews also survive. The funeral service will be conducted at 8 p.m. Saturday, January 10, in the Chapel of Peace of Tetrick Funeral Home with the Rev. Ray Stocton, the Rev. Steve Burleson and the Rev. Rick Price officiating. The graveside service and interment will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, January 11, at Caldwell Springs Cemetery with the Rev. Stephen Tolley and the Rev. Mark Potter officiating. Active pallbearers will be Eddie Peters, Guy Sams, Ricky Williams, Dale Roberson, Stephen Tolley and Mark Potter. Honorary pallbearers will be Odell Bowers, Bobby Woods Jr., friends and her church family. The family would like to thank the nurses and staff of Hermitage Health Center for their loving and gentle care of mother for the last seven years. Those who plan to attend the graveside service are asked to meet at the funeral home at 1:15 p.m. Sunday to go in procession to the cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8:00 p.m. Saturday in the Chapel of Peace of Tetrick Funeral Home. Friends may also call at the residence of her children, Pauline Taylor, 816 Hwy. 91, Elizabethton, Pansy Rouse, 120 Franklin Lane, Elizabethton, and Oma Jean Woods, 1707 Siam Road, Elizabethton, any time. Online condolences may be sent to the family through our Web site at www.tetrickfuneralhome.com. Tetrick Funeral Home, Elizabethton, (423) 542-2232, is in charge of arrangements. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Elizabethton Star http://www.starhq.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------