Gulf Breeze, FL

Olive Louise Bowyer, 97, of  Gulf Breeze, FL passed away on Monday, April 25, 2016 in The Beacon Assisted Living. She was the daughter of the late Charles and Mattie O'Berry Townsend and the wife of the late Henry Bowyer who died in 1997. She and her husband were former residents of Bakersville , NC .

She was a homemaker and a member of Bakersville Baptist Church , and also a former member of The Red Hat Club in Bakersville , NC .

Survivors include: her sons; Duane E Bowyer and wife Rowena, of Freeport, Florida, Larry M Bowyer and wife Ann Marie, of Gulf Breeze, Florida, and Bruce T Bowyer and wife Regina, of Roebuck, South Carolina, one sister; Florence Mullinex, of Bakersville, NC, ten grandchildren, twenty one great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild, and a brother in law; William Amiro, of St Petersburg, Florida.

She was preceded in death in addition to her parents by: her husband; Henry Bowyer, two brothers; William and John Townsend, and two sisters; Martha and Ruth Ann.

Funeral Services will be 3:00 pm Sunday, May 1, 2016 in the Bakersville Baptist Church with Vernon Buchanan officiating. Burial will follow in the Bakersville Memorial Cemetery . The family will receive friends from 4-6 pm Saturday, April 30, 2016 at Henline-Hughes Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of The Blue Ridge 236 Hospital Drive Bakersville, NC 28705 or to Bakersville Baptist Church PO Box 2 Bakersville, NC 28705.