OBIT: Mr. Larry Bowman, Age 59, Of Cookeville
Mr. Larry Bowman, a longtime resident of South Carthage and more recently a resident of Cookeville, died at 1:21 p.m. Thursday afternoon March 30, 2017 at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The 59 year old was transferred by Life Flight on Tuesday evening March 28th following a single car accident at 387 Defeated Creek Highway in which he was a rear seat passenger in an SUV driven by his sister, Vicki, who apparently suffered a medical emergency while driving. The call for assistance was received at Smith County 911 at 6:48 p.m.
Services were conducted by Eld. Charles Allen Gentry from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home on Monday morning April 3rd at 11 a.m. Mr. Bowman will be cremated at Cumberland Family Services in Algood.
One of five children of the late Webb Allen Bowman who died October 14, 1991 at the age of 57 and Willie Faye Ray Bowman who died March 10, 1990 at the age of 51, he was born Larry Allen Bowman in Carthage on October 20, 1957.
A brother, James Nelson “Jimmy” Bowman died as the result of a heart attack in Cookeville on January 19, 2012 at the age of 50.
He was wed to Cookeville native the former Angie McBroom at the Smith County Courthouse by then Smith County Count Clerk Jimmy Norris. The vows were recited on March 19, 2005.
Mr. Bowman was a longtime employee of D. T. McCall and Sons in Carthage.
He was a member of the 1975 class at Smith County High School.
Surviving in addition to his wife of over twelve years are his three sons, Robbie Bowman and Daniel Bowman both of Carthage, Ricky Bowman of Clarksville; two sisters, Vicki Key and husband Eddie and Phyllis Trout all of South Carthage, Veta Ogden of Beloit, Wisconsin; two step-children, Bobby McBroom Jr. of Clarksville, Michelle McBroom of Cookeville; two grandchildren, Cody Allen McBroom and Nicholas Bowman.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
