Record-Searchlight – July 6, 2007 – Redding, CA Bowman, Sherman R. ANDERSON - Sherman R. Bowman went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, June 27, 2007, following seventeen years of bravely living with the effects of several strokes, the first having occurred in 1990. He was 83 years of age at his death. Sherman was born on January 26, 1924 in Likely, Modoc County, California, the first of five children born to William and Clara Bowman, and the grandson of Andrew Jackson Bowman, an early Modoc County pioneer, and successful rancher. Sherman was in the third grade when his parents moved to Alturas. He continued his education in Alturas, until 1943, when, foregoing his final weeks of high school, he enlisted in the Marine Corp to go fight in World War II. His Marine Corp unit was shipped out first to Australia, and then back to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Ultimately, they were stationed in Sitka, Alaska preparing for an anticipated attack from Japanese forces. In Sitka, Sherman, who had risen to the rank of sergeant, met and married a local young woman named Julia Durkees. At the end of World War II, Sherman was discharged from the Marine Corp in Orange County, California, which is where his son, William was born in 1945. Sherman's second son, Andrew, was born in 1948. In 1949, Sherman, with his wife and sons, returned to Alturas, where he worked for Ingram's Hardware Store. This was to be the beginning of a lifelong career in the lumber and hardware industry. In 1953, subsequent to a divorce by Julia in 1950, Sherman accepted a position as assistant manager of Sterling Lumber Company's operations in Roseville, California. During this period, he renewed a life long friendship with Dolores Bunyard Barker, a schoolmate from Modoc County, who was residing with her two children, Phillip and Rebecca, in the home of her parents, and teaching school, in Napa, California. In 1958, Sherman was able to regain custody of his sons. In the course of the continuing friendship between Sherman and Dolores, and the emerging friendship between the children, Sherman and Dolores decided to join the two families together and were married in July, 1958. Sherman returned to Roseville with a new family. In 1959, Sherman was offered the manager position at Sterling Lumber Company in Placerville, California, and the family moved to El Dorado County. Sherman was baptized in the American River in Coloma, California, in 1960, along with all four of his children, having accepted Christ as Lord. He thus embarked on a life long effort to know God, and to submit his life to Him. In 1963, Sterling Lumber Company shut down all its operation. Sherman went to work as a sales manager for a lumber mill in the mountains of Georgetown, El Dorado County, California, and the family moved there for a short time. A devastating forest fire, destroyed the mill, and Sherman once again had to find work, and the family moved back to Placerville. For several years he commuted between the family's home in Placerville, and his job with Gateway Lumber in Orangevale, California. In 1967, Sherman accepted a position with Meeks Lumber Company in their then new facility on Cypress Avenue, in Redding. He moved with wife, Dolores, to Anderson. Throughout his lifetime he was known as an excellent horseman, and enjoyed raising and training horses. As a young man he participated in local rodeos, and was a good hand with a rope. He was often off helping friends move cattle, and if there was no work to be done, he would take Dolores, and horses into the mountains to ride, and explore the back country. Sherman retired from Meeks Lumber in 1986. In 1990, he was struck down with the first stroke. For the next seventeen years, he demonstrated great courage, and determination, and was an example in faith to all of his children (4), grand children (10), and great grandchildren (20). He is survived by his wife, of thirty nine years, Dolores Bowman, who was also his faithful nurse and companion, and his sisters Irene Holloway, and Joyce Humphreys. His brother Kenneth Bowman, and sister Bertha Nichols, preceded him in death. A Memorial Service will be held at Anderson Cottonwood Neighborhood Church on Friday, July 6th at 11 a.m. Published in the Redding Record Searchlight on 7/6/2007. ~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Family Researcher of "The Last Frontier" Modoc County, California --- Our outgoing mail is checked by ZoneAlarm AntiVirus.