Lee Bowden
Lee C. Bowden, 76 years old, of Independence, Iowa, died on Sunday, March 1, 2015, at the Buchanan County Health Center in Independence.
He was born on June 9, 1938, in Buchanan County, on a farm northwest of Lamont, Iowa, the son of Fred George and Delma Edith (Dopp) Bowden.
He graduated from high school in Lamont, Iowa, with the Class of 1956. He continued his education at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa, where he graduated in 1960. He later earned a Master of Arts degree in Business Education from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, in 1972.
On November 22, 1961, he and Lynne Ellen Reed were married at Grace United Methodist Church in Lamont. To this union two children were born, Mark Richard and Monte Reed.
Lynne preceded Lee in death in 1986.
On June 23, 1990, he married Linda Kay Menzel at the Union Church in Stanley, Iowa.