Mary Ellen Bowie

of North Little Rock, AR

July 24, 1933 - June 3, 2012

Mary Ellen Bowie 78, of North Little Rock, passed Sunday, June 3, 2012 at her home with her family by her side. Mary was born in Mt. Vernon, AR to the late Grady Akin and Flara I. Yeary Akin Clements. She was preceded in death by her parents and step-dad, C D Clements.
She was a member of Graves Memorial Baptist Church. Bride at seventeen, she remained in love and joined to the same man for sixty-one loving years.
She raised four children, nine grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren teaching them to love the Lord our God.
She was an amazing wife, mother, homemaker, seamstress, designer and artist whose medium was fabric, flowers, and plants.
Her unconditional love for her family whether related by blood or not, touched the lives of many. Her family was her life.
Mary leaves to cherish her memory her husband of sixty-one years, Thomas Jefferson Lafayette Bowie; four children and their spouses, Thomas Lynn and Debbie Ann Bowie of Jacksonville, Christopher Gordon and Lois Bowie of Conway, Mary Kathleen and Jackson Steelman of Dover and Sandra Gail and Steve Burris of North Little Rock; nine grandchildren Christina Roachell, Amie Rudd, Stephany Barnette, Robyn Bowie, Sarah Thawley, Dustin Tacker, Jeff Bowie, Ashley Maxwell and Shane Burris; ten great-grandchildren, Adison Rudd, Rylee Barnette, Christian Roachell, Caiden Rudd, Kierstyn Roachell, Brody Tacker, McKenzie Barnette, Chloe Maxwell, Alexander Burris and Boston Bowie; seven siblings, Wendell Clements, Jean Graham, Glynes Clements, Peggy Starr, Donald Clements, Sybil Crafford, and Cecelia Mitts.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m., Friday, June 8, 2012, at Graves Memorial Baptist Church, Oak Grove Road, North Little Rock, AR 72118 with Pastor Travis Matthews officiating. Interment will follow at Edgewood Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, June 7, 2012 at Roller-Owens Funeral Home, 5509 John F. Kennedy Blvd. North Little Rock, AR 72116 (501-791-7400).


Service Information
Visitation
Roller-Owens Funeral Home
5509 John F. Kennedy Blvd
North Little Rock,  AR 72116
6/7/2012 at 6-8 p.m.
Service
Graves Memorial Baptist Church
Old Conway Hwy
North Little Rock,  AR 72118
6/8/2012 at 10 a.m.

Cemetery/Interment
Edgewood Memorial Park
4200 Division
North Little Rock, AR 72118
 


Obituary Provided By:
Roller-Owens Funeral Home
5509 John F. Kennedy Blvd.
North Little Rock, AR  72116
www.rollerfuneralhomes.com