Brenda Bowman

Brenda Gale Bowman, 66, of Buffalo, Texas, formerly a resident of Pasadena and Deer Park, TX went to be with her Lord on August 14, 2014. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M., Monday, August 18, 2014 at Ephesus Baptist Church in Jewett, TX. Visitation will be held from 4:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Sunday, August 17th, at the Walters Funeral Home, 610 S. Commerce, Centerville, TX 75833. A second service will be held on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at the Memorial Baptist Church, 6901 Faimont Pkwy., Pasadena, TX 77505. Interment will follow in the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery, 8501 Spencer Hwy., Pasadena, TX 77505.

Mrs. Bowman was born on October 4, 1947 to H.G. & Helen (Fisher) Brown in Greenville, SC. She was the tenth of eleven children. Her family moved to Texas in 1951 at the insistence of Brenda's sister, Kathleen. Kathleen had been the person to choose Brenda Gale as her little sister's name.

Mrs. Bowman was a 1966 graduate of CHS where she was blessed with many honors. She was chosen "Miss CHS" her senior year and received the DAR Good Citizen Award. She cheered the Falcons for four years and was Head Cheerleader as a senior. Mrs. Bowman was also the Vice President of her senior class. She married her high school sweetheart, Clarence Bowman on July 1, 1966.

Mrs. Bowman was employed at Channelview ISD for four years, then moved on to the Law Office of Frank B. Gray. In 1979, she began working for George J. Rice, MD; Hugo Orellana, MD and Anthony L. Leger, DDS until stricken with lung cancer in 1996.

In 1998, the Bowmans purchased the Bowman Ranch in Buffalo, Texas as their retirement place.

Mrs. Bowman was preceded in death by both of her parents; sisters, Edna, Doris, Coleen, Kathleen and Barbara and two brothers, Carl & Jerry Alton. She is survived by her soul-mate of forty-eight years, Clarence Bowman of Buffalo; daughter, Kelly Ann (Bowman) Lindsay of Klein; son, Carl Alex Bowman of Kerrville; granddaughters, Paige Elizabeth Bowman, Peyton Alison Lindsay, Parker Anne Lindsay and Presley Abigail Lindsay of Klein; brothers, Dr. James Brown & wife, Johnelle, of Pasadena and G. Gardner Brown & wife, Becky, of Victoria; sister, Carolyn Joyce Stahl of Kingwood; six nieces; three nephews and special friends, Larry & Marsha Page. She is also survived by her family pets, Katie-Beth and Hudson.

Walters Funeral Home in Centerville, TX is in charge of all arrangements. Please log onto www.waltersfuneralhome.com to sign the online memorial guestbook.