Funeral services for Allie Mae Bowen, 90 of Fort Worth and formerly of this area, will be 4:00 pm Saturday, April 19, 2008 at Farmer Funeral Home in Silsbee with interment following in Resthaven Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 5:00 pm Friday at the funeral home.
Allie passed away April 17, 2008 in Fort Worth.
She was born May 19, 1917 in Doucette, TX and attended school in Village Mills. As a young girl, she worked in the Beaumont and High Island areas, before moving to California and later in life, Arizona. She had recently moved to Fort Worth from Arizona where she had lived for many years.
In California, Allie worked for Boeing as an airplane technician, McDonald Douglas and retired from Motorola in Arizona at 70 years of age.
Allie was a Christian lady who loved travelling and writing and receiving letters. She traveled to many countries with the Hal Lindsey groups and with Freida on Holy Land tours.
Allie loved having family and friends visit. They could always count on seeing the sights of Arizona and California while there.
Allie Mae was preceded in death by her father and mother, Ramsey Clyde and Nettie Lou McBryde; brothers Horace B. McBryde, Billy J. McBryde and sisters Willie Vee Huff, Mable McCormick and Myrle McBryde.
She is survived by her brother R. C. McBryde and wife, Edith McBryde of Beaumont; sisters-in-law Gwinda McBryde of Fort Worth, Aline McBryde of Silsbee and Annie Bee McCormick of Orange.
