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January 11, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A funeral service will be held at 8 PM at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
Richard D. Bowen, Sr. age 83 a lifelong resident of Pompton Lakes died Friday, January 11, 2013 at home.
He worked for the Pompton Feed Co. in Riverdale for forty years and then Structural Stone in Fairfield before retiring in 1989.
He was an outgoing person who would talk to just about anyone. He had a good sense of humor and always had a corny joke. Richard loved animals and as a young boy he adopted a pigeon who would land on his bicycle when he whistled. As a young man he enjoyed boxing at Joe Lewis’ Boxing Camp in Pompton Lakes.
He was the loving husband of the late Constance Bowen (1996); loved father of Richard Bowen, Jr. and his wife Betty of Highland Lakes, Ron Bowen and his wife Peggy of Bloomingdale, Robert Bowen and his wife Barbara of Pompton Plains, and Susan Bowen of Pompton Lakes; dear brother of Madeline Gordon and Mildred Bunton; cherished grandfather of five grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, and one great-great-granddaughter.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A funeral service will be held at 8 PM at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
January 11, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A funeral service will be held at 8 PM at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
Richard D. Bowen, Sr. age 83 a lifelong resident of Pompton Lakes died Friday, January 11, 2013 at home.
He worked for the Pompton Feed Co. in Riverdale for forty years and then Structural Stone in Fairfield before retiring in 1989.
He was an outgoing person who would talk to just about anyone. He had a good sense of humor and always had a corny joke. Richard loved animals and as a young boy he adopted a pigeon who would land on his bicycle when he whistled. As a young man he enjoyed boxing at Joe Lewis’ Boxing Camp in Pompton Lakes.
He was the loving husband of the late Constance Bowen (1996); loved father of Richard Bowen, Jr. and his wife Betty of Highland Lakes, Ron Bowen and his wife Peggy of Bloomingdale, Robert Bowen and his wife Barbara of Pompton Plains, and Susan Bowen of Pompton Lakes; dear brother of Madeline Gordon and Mildred Bunton; cherished grandfather of five grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, and one great-great-granddaughter.
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