Maverick County Pioneer Family Member and Former Educator Mary Rose Bowles Passes Away at Age 91
Eagle Passans mourn the passing of Maverick County pioneer Bowles family member and former retired educator, Mary Rose Bowles, age 91, of Eagle Pass, Texas at her home peacefully of natural causes on Thursday, August 20, 2020.
Bowles was born on February 28, 1929 in Eagle Pass, Texas as the seventh of eight children born to Harold (“Hal”) F. Bowles and Herminia Osborne Bowles.
Bowles graduated from Eagle Pass High School, Incarnate Word College (now University of the Incarnate Word), and Sul Ross State University.
Everyone in the community knew her as both a dedicated elementary school teacher at Dena Kelso Graves Elementary and Robert E. Lee Elementary and an assistant principal at Eagle Pass High School. She retired as an educator from the Eagle Pass Independent School District on May 27, 1999, after more than 36 years of service and commitment to the children of this community.
Mary Rose Bowles is survived by her youngest sister, Evelyn Brock of Georgia; her nieces, Holly Jackson Turk and husband, Michael, and Diana Bowles; and nephews, John Bowles, Robert Bowles, and Gerald Bowles.
Bowles is preceded in death by her parents, Harold (“Hal”) Bowles and Herminia Osborne Bowles, her brothers, Harold O. Bowles, Frank O. Bowles, Sheriff Tom Bowles, and sisters, Genevieve Hall, Lorna Bowles, and Magdalen Bowles Jackson.
The Bowles Family would like to express their heartfelt thanks to her special caregiver, Paloma De Leon. The family also gives special thanks to caregivers Gloria De Leon and Sandy Guerra and to her close friends, Irene and Javier Trevino.
The Bowles and Turk families would like to thank everyone for their kind thoughts and prayers.
Public viewing will be held on Sunday, August 23, 2020, from 2 P.M to 6 P.M. at Yeager-Barrera Mortuary, 1613 Del Rio Blvd., Eagle Pass, Texas 78852, Telephone (830) 773-3211.
Interment will be held on Monday, August 24, 2020, at 11 A.M. at the Maverick County Cemetery in Eagle Pass, Texas.
***”Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.”
