Priscilla Bowers

Priscilla Morgan Bowers died on January 07, 2015 at Harbor Hospice, Westlake, at the age of 91.
She was a native of Leechburg, Penn. Her family later moved to Niagara Falls, N.Y. where she met and married Joe R. Bowers, Sr. His job transferred him in 1953 to start up the Olin Matheson Refinery in Westlake. After living in Lake Charles for a year (at the site of the present Tony’s Pizza), while waiting on their home to be built, they moved to Westlake in 1954 where they remained until their deaths. Shea had several different jobs while living in Westlake. She worked in the Shoe Dept. of Muller’s Dept. Store, worked in the Cafeteria at S.P. Arnett Middle School and was most known as the manager of the public pool in Westlake. She was an active member of Westlake United Methodist Church for years.
Survivors include three daughters: Linda Berry and husband, Charles Berry of Dickinson, Texas, Carol Zimmerman and her husband, Ronald Zimmerman of Tomball, Texas, Rebecca (Becky) Knott and her husband Raymond Knott of Arnaudville, La.., her son, Joe R. Bowers, Jr. and his wife, Alice Manning Bowers of Lake Charles, La.; 10 grandchildren, Angela Hoy, Alicia Granger, Stacey Berry, Pamela Goodeaux, Eric Zimmerman, Kari Edwards, Wesley Zimmerman, Lindsey Zimmerman, Lauren Bowers and Hunter Bowers; Sibilings: Charlotte Whitmore of Yuma, Ariz., William Morgan, Jr of Marble Falls, Texas, Elizabeth Sauro of Yuma, and Peggy Surman of Corona, Calif.; three great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Donna Angela Bowers; a brother, John Morgan; her husband, Joe R. Bowers, Sr., her mother, Priscilla Morgan and her father, William Morgan, Sr.
No funeral or memorial service will be held.
be held as she had an aversion to them. Her family is honoring her wishes and after cremation will spread her ashes in Galveston where her husband’s were spread.

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