Helen M. Bowers

News Death Notice

BOWERS, Helen M. 93, passed away peacefully at her daughter's home in Solon, Ohio on February 3, 2012. She was born in Brown County Ohio on December 6, 1918, the daughter of the late Charles and Grace (nee: McFadden) Holloway. At an early age Helen and her family moved to Springfield, Ohio where she graduated from Springfield High School. She met her future husband at the Hillside Church of God, where she has been a life-long member. Helen was united in marriage to Robert E. Bowers on June 24, 1937. Helen spent her early years of marriage working along-side her husband to establish their farm in Champaign County and raising three children. The main loves of her life were her husband, her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and great great grandchild. She loved sewing, quilting, crocheting, and playing the organ. She was active in her church, teaching Sunday school and singing in the choir. For many years, she was an active 4-H Leader, teaching young girls the art of sewing. In the later years she became an accomplished insurance professional and an officer in the Professional Insurance Women's Organization. In their years of semi-retirement from farming, Helen and her husband loved to travel in their motorhome throughout the USA and Canada. Until she became ill in recent months, she was continually sewing, quilting, or crocheting treasures for family members and charity. Helen was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 65 years, Robert, her parents, Charles and Grace Holloway, her sisters, Mary Alice Clark, and Anna Lee Blevins, her brother, Wesley Holloway, two children, Joyce Ann McBean and Ronald Eugene Bowers. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Robert E. Jr. and Gaye Bowers; her daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Bob Evans; her grandchildren, Jack (Starlett) McBean, Jim (Belinda) McBean, Jerry (Sandy) McBean, Megan (Mike) Donohue, Brent ( Chris) Bowers, Brian (Kathy) Hurd, Beth Mattke, Todd (Cindy) Evans, Tom Evans, Debi (Gordon) Dickinson, Susan (John) Polatz, 23 great grandchildren, Ethan, Paige, Wesley, Bethany, Amber, Dylan, Ryan, Caitlin, Aidan, Joseph, Ally, Zac, Paige Elizabeth, Isabel, Nick, Peter, JC, Emilie, Alexandria, Jason, Katherine, Keegan, Oliver, Tate,and great great grandchild, Reagan, and many nieces and nephews. Friends may call Sunday February 5, 2012, from 2:00 - 4:00 and 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the Jackson Lytle and Lewis Funeral Home, North Limestone Street, Springfield. Services will be held in the Hillside Church of God, Springfield, Monday, February 6, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. with Rev. Michael Criner officiating. Burial will follow in Oakdale Cemetery, Urbana. In Lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to American Heart Association or Cornerstone Hospice in Urbana.