Voylia Bowen

Obituaries

August 28, 2010 - 12:00 AM

Voylia May O’Brien Bowen, 86, died Tuesday, Aug. 3,  2010, at the home of her daughter, Lia Bowen Franson, in Tulsa, Okla., with the assistance of Good Shepard Hospice.
She was born on May 7, 1924, in Humboldt, to George Higginbotham and Hazel Beatrice Johnston O’Brien. 
She graduated from Iola High School, attended Allen County  Community Junior College and one semester at Kansas University.  She worked as a teletype operator for Delta Airlines before marrying Rex L. Bowen on June 16, 1945, in Birmingham Ala. They lived in Harlingen, Texas, and later moved to Cushing, Okla. In 1999, they moved to Moran. She served many years in various small churches in central eastern Oklahoma with her husband. She also served in Chapter 317 Order of the Eastern Star in Drumright, Okla. She was a member of United Methodist Church of Moran. He died Nov. 27, 2009.  
She is survived by her children, Rex Lee II, Owasso, Okla., George Frederick, Maplewood, Minn., and Voylia Bea (Lia) Bowen Franson, Tulsa; a sister, Phyllis Dorothy O’Brien Harclerode, Dickenson, Texas; two grandsons and two granddaughters; and three great-grandsons.
Interment will be Sept. 4 in Moran Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be given to United Methodist Church in Moran.
Floral Haven Funeral Home, Broken Arrow, Okla., is in charge of arrangements.

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