Carolyn Bowman

Carolyn Bowman, 79, of Sioux Falls, SD, passed away on Friday, September 18, 2015, at St. Luke’s Northland Hospital, North Kansas City, MO.

Carolyn was born in Maryville, MO, on February 2, 1936. Her parents were Charles M. and Pauline (Miller) Massie, they preceded her in death. She was also preceded by her daughter Nancy Lynn Bowman, and her two sisters, Virginia Hogue-Combs, and Norma Newman.

She graduated from Hopkins High School in 1954, and had attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College in Maryville.

She loved horses in her youth, and in her later years cooking for her family and friends was a great joy. She was of the Christian faith, and had once been the organist at a Presbyterian church in Shakopee, MN.

On September 6, 1955, Carolyn was united in marriage to Ronald Dean Bowman, in Pickering, MO. He survives of the home.

Carolyn and Ronald moved to Minnesota in 1955. Then in 1978 they moved and lived in Escondido, CA, until April of this year. She had been a homemaker, raising the children, and took temporary secretary jobs in Minnesota. She later sold real estate in California for 20 Years.

Survivors include her husband Ronald, of the home; 2 children, Kimberly (Tom) DeRuyter, Fairbanks, AK, and Darwin Bowman, Minneapolis, MN; 2 grandchildren, Megan DeRuyter, and Chloe Lynch; and numerous nieces and nephews, and friends.

Services will be at 1:30 PM, on Tuesday, September 22, 2015, at the Bram-Danfelt Funeral Home, Maryville, MO. The burial will follow in the Nodaway Memorial Gardens, Maryville.

The family will receive friends from 6-7:30 PM, Monday, September 21, 2015, at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, donations are suggested to the COPD Foundation, Donation Headquarters, 3300 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Miami, FL 33134, or [email protected] . Or, to a charity of the donor’s choice.

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