Anna Estelle Bowman

OAKLAND, Calif. - Anna Estelle Lowrey Bowman, 101, passed away Tuesday, July 28, 2015, at Sunrise of Oakland, in Oakland, Calif. She was the daughter of Addie Louise Yale Lowrey and Edward Whittlesey Lowrey.

Born in Southington, Conn. on Feb. 27, 1914, she attended the Southington public schools and received music training at Yale University. She played the church organ in the Plantsville Congregational Church and held secretarial positions in Southington and San Francisco, Calif. Most of her life was spent in San Francisco, Calif. and later, Walnut Creek, Calif. She married Dr. Karl Murdock Bowman M.D. in 1959, lived in Thailand and Anchorage, Alaska where he set up clinics and taught. She continued to play the organ for church services into her 90's.

She leaves behind Patricia Sanvidge Bowman, wife of the late Walter Bowman and their five children, Leslie Bowman, Shannon Bowman, Carson Bowman, Jamie Pat Bowman and Cameron Bowman. She also leaves behind the children of two deceased sons, Richard (Thomas E. Bowman IV, and Ellen Bowman) and Tom Bowman (Judy Bowman, Susie Bowman, Laurin Beckhausen, husband of the late Kathy Bowman) and her brother Allen's children, Charlotte Louise Yale Provost, Dr. Allen Rice Yale Jr. PhD, Vickie Yale, widow of David Yale, and Marjory Yale Stitt and their families. She was predeceased by her husband, Karl Bowman; and her brother, Allen Rice Yale. She enjoyed a long and healthy life, the large extended family of Bowman and Yale children and grandchildren, great and great-great grandchildren on both sides of the family and was a gracious hostess and friend.