Ruby M. Bowen, 85
A retired primary school teacher with Cannon County schools for 37 years and a member of Woodbury Church of Christ, she was the daughter of H. Clay and Myra Winnette Mears; and was preceded in death by husband Beecher Bowen; brothers, Hoyte, Doran, Jack and Jimmy Myers; and sister, Gwen Orr.
She is survived by sisters and brother-in-law, Margie and Bill Wells of Hood River, Ore., and Georgia Phillips of Lincoln Park; several nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. today at Woodbury Funeral Home Chapel with Billy Smith, Norman Pelham, Richard Bowman, Jeff McMahan, Charlie Bowman, Odell Powell and Gayle Rains officiating. Burial will follow at Riverside Cemetery.
Woodbury Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Jan. 5, 2005