Barbara Nell Bowlin Tahlequah Daily Press
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
February 17, 2012Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
TAHLEQUAH — Barbara Nell Bowlin, a long-time Cherokee County resident, died Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Muskogee. She was 74 years of age.
Services will be Saturday, Feb. 18, at the Hart Funeral Home Chapel at 10 a.m.
Entombment will follow in the Bowlin Family Cemetery in Hulbert.
Barbara Nell Bowlin was born March 27, 1937, in Umpire, Ark., the daughter of Marion Jess and Lois (Pool) Chandler. She and Lawrence Clay “Shorty” Bowlin were married Sept. 8, 1953, in Oregon, Ill.
The couple returned to Cherokee County in 1955.
She was a mother of seven children, and worked as a homemaker and proprietor of B and B Pipe in Hulbert.
She went back to school and received her LPN certification in 1978. Barbara was a member of the Eastern Star.
Survivors include seven children, Linda Sue Smith and husband Kurby of Hulbert, James L. Bowlin and wife Bobbie of Welling, Debora Ann Johnson and husband William J. Jr. of Hulbert; Johnny Bowlin, and wife Tracey of Coweta, Shirley Jean Gritts and husband Jerry of Hulbert, Pamela Joyce Bowlin and husband Shapoor Kazemi of Muskogee, and Brenda Lee Gerth and husband Robert of Bates City, Mo.; brothers and sisters, Jean Jennings, John David Chandler, Jesse Wayne Chandler, Betty Sue Whitenmyer, Bobby Chandler and Carl Chandler; 27 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1998; her parents; and sister, Margaret Brophy. Please sign the online guestbook at www.hartfuneralhome.net.
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