Published: April 29, 2008 11:37 am            

Ethel Bowes

Ethel Bowes, age 80, a longtime Cushing resident, passed away on Sunday, April 27, 2008.

Funeral services have been entrusted to Palmer Marler Funeral Home, Cushing, and will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Palmer Marler Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow in the Flynn Cemetery, Cushing.

Ethel was born in Seminole Oct. 15, 1927. She moved to Lincoln County south of Cushing in about 1931. She attended Lone Oak School and later attended Stillwater Commercial Art in Central Area Vo-Tech.

In 1960, she married Arch Flood. They had one daughter who died in 1974. She married George W. Lowry. He died in 1976; in 1977 she married Charles E. Bowes who died in December of 1991. Ethel lived in the Lindly homestead, from 1931 until 1960, when she married Arch Floyd, moved to Tulsa for one year then resided in Stillwater until 1975. She moved back to the Lindly homestead. Following a stroke, Ethel moved to Midwest City in 2001 to be with her cousin.

Ethel learned to play music on the guitar at 18 and began writing songs since the 1950s at this date totaling 30 or more.

Her hobbies were art and rock collecting. She was a charter member 10 years with Stillwater Sweet Adelines 2 years, with Cushing prospective chapter of Sweet Adelines and 10 years past member of Stillwater Art Guild and a present member of Stillwater Mineral & Gem Society, Stillwater Women of the Moose Lodge 1368 for 11 years, Cushing Genealogical Society. She enjoyed singing and playing music in the Senior Citizen Center in Cushing.

Ethel retired from Oklahoma State University food service in January 1992 after 18 1/2 years of work, while there she was employed in Central Bakery 4 years and Scott Parker Wentz Cafeteria 14 years as a line server, teaching her to make garnishes for the line as well as creating many on her own.

Survivors include her mother, Martha Presley; niece, Judy Osment and husband, Jerry, of Midwest City; and numerous cousins.

        

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