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January 6, 1935 — February 7, 2024
Doris Marie (Stewart) Bowles was born on January 6th, 1935, in Austin Tx to Raymond Stewart and Mildred (Dooley)Stewart, their first child of five.
She worked at Scarbroughs Dept. Store and Paramount Theater as a teen and after graduation of Austin High she attended Nixon-Clay Business school in Austin. Whatever her plans were for the future, they were drastically changed when she met her future husband, Lee Roy Bowles Jr. (Junior) of Marble Falls, on a blind date in 1953. Marriage followed and the Army draft led them immediately to his station outside of Chicago IL.
On their return to the Hill Country, she learned to ride a horse and Ranch alongside Junior, tending hundreds of goats, sheep and cattle throughout the Hill Country. Larry came along eight years later and Linda eight years after that, giving her the role of Mother and Homemaker along with the work of Ranching.
She enjoyed the Country life, having numerous pets, canning the massive amounts of vegetables Junior grew in his evergrowing gardens and making our life good far from town. Her father loved to travel, and Doris shared that love also, enjoyed reading and doing her hobbies when time permitted. Her Cherokee ancestry led her to study the Native culture and was proud of it. For a Daughter of the Depression she always appreciated her life and reminded us how bad it could be.
Proceeded in death by her Parents, two brothers (Weldon and Kenneth) and her Husband of 61 years L. R. Bowles Jr.. She is survived by brothers James Stewart and Gary Stewart, son Larry Bowles (Rhonda), Daughter Linda Stapleton (Kirk), grandchildren and great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Linda was her live in nurse for the last year of her life and caretaker for both many years previous. A true blessing to Doris and Junior.
Special thanks to the Doctors and Nurses at Baylor Scott and White Marble Falls whose extraordinary care in her final days comforted her and the Family. Thank you.
No Services are planned, she wished for her ashes to be spread in the Rocky Mountains she only visited once but always loved.