Mexia Daily News - Feb. 22, 2005 edition

Edith Elizabeth (Johnson) Bowen

TEAGUE - Funeral services for Mrs. Edith Elizabeth Bowen, 83, will be Wednesday
afternoon at 5:30 in Dew Methodist Church. The Rev. Jerry Anderson will
officiate. Family visitation is scheduled for this evening from 6 until 8
o'clock at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home of Teague.

Mrs. Bowen, a Methodist, was a member of the Fraternal Order of the Eagles, and
was a Homemaker. She had resided in the Fairfield area for the past seven years
and died Friday at her residence. She was born in Grand Marais, Minnesota.

Mrs. Bowen was preceded in death by her parents, John and Juliana Johnson; by
her husband, Ormand Ray Bowen; by a brother, Johnnie Johnson, and by a sister,
Anna Crofton.

Surviving are children - Ron Bowen and wife Joni of Sheboygan, Wisconsin,
William Downey and wife Chris of Painsdale, Wisconsin, Rona Giese of San
Francisco, California, John Bowen and wife Jane of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Dan
Bowen and wife Kathy of Walnut Grove, California, Jim Bowen and wife Diane of
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Julie Vaughn and husband Jerry of Fairfield;
grandchildren - Angela Malueg, Lisa Bowen, Kelly Opperman, Derek Giese, Jared
Giese, Noah Giese, Rachel Giese, Jordanne Bowen, Stephen John Bowen, Taylor
Bowen, Bill Downey and Bob Downey; great-grandchildren - Tom and Will Opperman,
Ethan Bowen, Clay Russ, Amanda and James Malueg, Stephen, Jessica and Jacob
Pate, Alexa and Maria Downey; and a special friend, John Talvensaari.