Leesburg, Virginia
Edith Irmgard Bowman
1934 — 2022
Edith I. Bowman, 87, loving wife and mother, passed away peacefully on July 22, 2022 in Potomac Falls, Virginia. Born in Mutterstadt, Germany, she was a legal stenographer when she met her future husband, Lt. Elmo (Lyle) Bowman, US Army, in Ansbach, Germany in 1951. The couple married in February 1954 and she immigrated to the U.S. in July of 1954. Edith proudly became a U.S. citizen in 1957. Edith accompanied her husband to military assignments is Arizona, California, Taiwan, New Jersey and Belgium. Upon Lyle's retirement in 1979, they moved to Tucson, AZ until July of 1996 when they relocated to Falcons Landing Retirement Community in Potomac Falls, Virginia. Edith was, first and...