Sandra-Bowen-Obituary

Sandra Skipwith Bowen

Houston, Texas

Nov 6, 1957 – Feb 21, 2024

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BORN
November 6, 1957
DIED
February 21, 2024
LOCATION
Houston, Texas

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Sandra Skipwith Bowen passed away on Wednesday, February 21, with her daughters by her side, following years of complications from a devastating stroke. A beloved mother, sister, daughter, aunt, and friend, Sandra is now free from suffering. She was 66 years of age. Sandra was born in Houston on...

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Happy Birthday, Honey! :) Always my favorite Scorpio! :)

Hi Honey. Remembering you: Your words, your paintings, your spectacular looks! :)

Hi Honey---I remember you, always. So sorry I could not have been with you on the day that you passed last year.

Posting this here in hopes of getting in contact with Stephanie Jones. This is Sandra´s daughter, Lizzy. I would love to connect with you. My email is [email protected]

Two poems by Sandra that appeared in the national literary magazine "Prairie Schooner" (Spring 2004) It Was An Ordinary Brook Miracle (Prairie Schooner, Spring 2004, vol. 78, no. 1) It was an ordinary brook miracle, an amber colored pool, that let in some light, not a lot. It was an ordinary light, with ordinary words and ordinary people, and ordinary drawings. It was an ordinary way of expecting so much, and what was there was so ordinary that I had to leave and return home to my...

Sandra at UT art school. Condolences.

Sandra as a teen. She'd told me that she used to hitchhike. I said, "Oh, no, don't do that!" But she already had.

Sandra, November 2007. I still can't get over that she's not still here on this earth. You were, and still are, loved.

Painting by Sandra Skipwith Bowen: "There was someone there looking out for you." And there was. We all did as much as we could.