Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 09:55:48 :
Independent Journal
Wednesday, April 13, 1977
Page 4
RUTH WHITE BOWIE
Memorial services for Ruth White Bowie, longtime Marin resident, art patron and charity worker, will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco.
Mrs. Bowie, wife of the late Ralston Lovell White, a Mill Valley pioneer, died Monday in a local hospital after a long illness. She was 88.
A native of San Francisco, she married White in 1910, and they built the Garden of Allah, a large estate on Mount Tamalpais. After White died in 1943, the mountain residence was given to the United Church of Christ.
In 1955, she married Dr. Robert C. Bowie, a physician from Fort Morgan, Colo. They divided their time between Mill Valley and Colorado until Bowie died in 1971.
Mrs. Bowie was a former member of the Mill Valley Outdoor Art club. She was a founding member of the Junior League of San Francisco and for several years was a volunteer for a Marin orphanage.
During World War I, Mrs. Bowie received a medal from the French government for raising $100,000 for the fatherless children of France.
She most recently lived at the Tamalpais Retirement Center in Greenbrae.
She is survived by several nephews and ___illegible____ councilwoman Jean S. Barnard and Barbara Weitz and Laurence M. Symmes Jr. of Mill Valley.
Memorial contributions are preferred to the Ruth Boericke White Bowie Memorial Fund, California State Homeopathic Society, P.O. Box 31100, San Francisco 94131.
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A Death Notice in the same paper adds information.
She was the aunt of Laurence M. Symmes Jr., Mrs. Jean Barnard and Mrs. Barbara Weitz, all of Mill Valley, and Charles Boericke Jr. and Mrs. Pat Hover of San Diego, Arthur Boericke and Keith Boericke, both of Berkeley. Also survived by 10 grandnephews and grandnieces and five great grandnephews and great grandnieces.
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