The Topeka Daily Capital Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Wednesday - March 22, 1961 Owen J. Bowman Rites Thrusday. Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Wall-Diffenderfer Chapel for Owen J. BOWMAN, 85, former director of religious education and music in Topeka churches and elsewhere, who died in a hospital here Monday. Born April 2, 1875, near Hummelstown, Pa., he was reared in Marion, Ind., attended DePauw University and for a time was an accountant for a lumber company and instructor for the YMCA. He was named director of religious education and music at the First Presbyterian Church in Evansville, Ill., in 1906. In 1916 he came to the First Methodist Church of Topeka as director of religious education and music. He organized the San Grael Sunday School Class and took part in work with the Kansas Avenue, Oakland and Euclid Methodist churches and Wesminister Presbyterian Church. He conducted the Tourist Bible Study Class in the Community Church of the Rockies at Estes Park, Colo., for more than 25 years. Surviving is his widow, Mrs. Ada BOWMAN at home. The body will lie in state at the funeral home until the time of services. Burial will be in Rochester Cemetery.