Leona Bowling

© The Purcell Register

June 23, 2005

Submitted by: Mary Anneler

Graveside services for Leona Bowling, 91, of Noble, formerly of Frankston, Texas, will be held today (Thursday), June 23, 2005 at Restland Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas. Services will be under the direction of Wilson-Little Funeral Home in Purcell.

Mrs. Bowling died June 20, 2005 at Noble Health Care Center.

She was born Dec. 4, 1913, one of four children of Elmer Shaw and Lula Fullbright Shaw. She was reared in the New Hope and Tecumseh area, graduating from Tecumseh High School in 1931.

She married Claude Branson in 1934 and they lived on a small farm east of Tecumseh for 26 years.

Following Mr. Branson’s death she married Elden Bowling. They lived in Dallas until he retired and then moved to Frankston.

In March 2005 she moved to Noble to be close to her sister.

Mrs. Bowling worked at Ward’s and Penney’s and was a homemaker. She attended the Baptist church.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Claude Branson in 1967 and Elden Bowling in June 2003; one sister, Mildred; two brothers, Ralph and Bill; one son, Richard Branson and one grandson, Allen Branson.

Survivors include one daughter, Betty Tompkins and her husband, Travis, of Noble; one stepdaughter, Barbara Rasberry and her husband, Ramos, of Dallas; one stepson, James Bowling and his wife, Margaret, of New Braunfels, Texas; three grandchildren; six step-grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

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