On Good Friday, April 6, 2012 the Lord called home Shirley Elaine Bowen (nee West),beloved wife of Robert Brandt Bowen for 60 1/2 years; loving mother of Deborah Popovec and her husband Bill and Kimberleigh Fitzsimmons; dear sister of Jacquelynn Wagner and Robert West; treasured grandmother of Michael and Julie Popovec and Justin and Stephanie Vane.

Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Road (Beltway exit 26) Wednesday, 2-4 & 7-9 PM. A Funeral Service will be held Thursday, 11:00 AM at Old Otterbein UMC , 112 W. Conway St., Baltimore, MD 21201. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. Donations in Shirley's name to St. Agnes Foundation, 900 Caton Ave., Mail Stop 123, Memo Line-Sitter's Fund, Baltimore, MD 21229 or the Shirley E. Bowen Memorial Music Fund, C/O Old Otterbein UMC would be appreciated.