BOWERS, Darlene 1936 - 2020

BOWERS, LARUE, WERTS, DAY, LEWIS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:23:27

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Page 6

DARLENE BOWERS
Fairfield

Services for Darlene BOWERS, 84, of Fairfield, formerly of Chariton, were held Tuesday, September 8, 2020, at 11:30 a.m. at the Pierschbacher Funeral Home. Her family received friends prior to the service beginning at 10:00 a.m. Interment followed at the Chariton Cemetery (note: in Lucas Co., IA).

In lieu of flowers, memorials are requested to the Freedom Bible Camp in Chariton. Joanne's family respectfully requests that anyone attending the visitation or service wear a mask and follow social distancing guidelines. The service will be available for viewing at the following:

my.gather.app/remember/darlene-bowers.

Darlene (LaRUE) BOWERS was born on April 26, 1936, on a farm east of Chariton, to Lloyd and Ruth (WERTS) LaRUE. She attended a one-room country school, and accepted Christ as her personal Savior at a young age. Darlene participated in 4-H for many years, becoming county 4-H president. She graduated Chariton High School in 1954 as valedictorian.

Darlene met her future husband, Robert BOWERS, at Freedom Bible Camp as a young teenager, and they corresponded by mail and saw each other at summer camp for years before dating and then marrying on June 24, 1955. Darlene attended Midwest Bible and Missionary Institute (later became Calvary Bible College) in St. Louis for 2.5 years. Sons Daniel and Doug were born in 1956 and 1958, while Robert finished his seminary education. She worked various part-time jobs throughout the years as a secretary, librarian, drug store clerk, and cook/waitress.

Her most important and cherished roles, however, were those of wife and mother, and serving the Lord alongside her husband at the churches he pastored. Robert and Darlene lived and pastored small churches in Arizona, Kentucky, Minnesota (where daughter Cheryl was born in 1964), Nebraska, Illinois (where youngest son Steven weas born in 1967), Missouri and Iowa.

Darlene enjoyed being a pastor's wife. In recent years, she fought arthritis, scoliosis, additional severe degenerative back problems, Parkinson's disease and breast cancer. Her strength and faith, especially through these challenges, have inspired and encouraged countless people.

Darlene is preceded in death by her parents, Lloyd and Ruth LaRUE; and a younger brother, Carroll Verne LaRUE, who died at birth.

She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Eileen and Louis DAY; uncle, George WERTS; husband, Robert BOWERS; sons and daughters-in-law, Daniel and Deanne BOWERS, Doug and Phyllis BOWERS, and Steven and Stacie BOWERS; daughter and son-in-law, Cheryl and Kevin LEWIS; 13 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and many more relatives and friends.

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