
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 10, 1994                   TAG: 9405100144
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: |New River Valley bureau|
DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE                                LENGTH: Short

HAZEL BOWEN, FORMER REPORTER FOR PAPER, DIES

The funeral for Hazel Bowen, who for 15 years was the voice of the Roanoke Times & World-News in Southwest Virginia, will be at 11 a.m. today at Grubb Funeral Home Chapel with burial in West End Cemetery.

Bowen, 71, died Saturday in Chesterfield.

She was hired in 1960 to help staff the newly opened Southwest Virginia Bureau of what was then the Roanoke Times. Between then and 1975 when she retired from newspaper work, she wrote stories, maintained office files, and usually was the person who greeted callers to the bureau from 15 counties in far Western Virginia.

She became expert at developing information from telephone sources on stories ranging from floods to law enforcement.

Survivors include two sons, Louis N. Bowen of Hampstead, Md., and Chris W. Bowen of Richmond; a sister, Marie Benson, Ontario, Canada; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

The Rev. Roger Kluttz, pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church where Bowen once oversaw the nursery on Sunday mornings, will conduct the funeral service.

by CNB