Nansemond-Chesterfield-Henrico County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bowman, Ernest M., 1979 

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ERNEST MELVIN BOWMAN 

  RICHMOND - Ernest Melvin Bowman, 89, of 7907 Neuson Court, died Monday in 
West Port Manor.

  Born in Chesterfield County, he retired from the Naval Air Station and was 
a former fireman with the City of Suffolk.  He was a member of Windsor Baptist 
Chuch.

  Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Nina Baker Bowman; three sons, John E. 
Bowman Sr. of Richmond, Ernest Melvin Bowman III of Saudi Arabia and Bernard 
Baker Bowman of Fort Worth, Texas; 12 grandchildren; and 10 great-
grandchildren.

  A funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday in R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral 
Home, Suffolk, by the Rev. H.B. Fisher.

  Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk.  The family will receive 
friends from 7 to 9 tonight in the funeral home and request expressions of 
sympathy take the form of contributions to the Nansemond-Suffolk Rescue Squad, 
Suffolk, or the Tackahhoe Rescue Squad.

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ERNEST MELVIN BOWMAN

   A funeral service for Ernest Melvin Bowman, who died Monday, was 
conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. in the R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home by the 
Rev. H.B. Fisher.  Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Floyd Jones, Johnnie Bowman, Tommy Bowman, Michael 
Bowman, B. Frank Jernigan, Herbert C. Coshatt.


Ernest Melvin BOWMAN, of Tuckahoe, 
retired from Naval Air Station, former Suffolk fireman, 
Chesterfield Co. native, d. 26 Nov 1979, age 89, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block I, Lot 86*), Suffolk, 29 Nov 1979, 
"Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Nov. 28, 1979, p. 31; 
"The Suffolk (VA) News-Herald,", Nov. 30, 1979 

*Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 


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