Patricia Bowman
Patricia Bowman passed away on Wednesday, October 25, 2017.
She was a 1976 graduate of Howard High School. She was a graduate of Tennessee Technological University and received her Masters of Business Administration from Phoenix University. She retired from UNUM Provident, but continued to work with children at the Carver Recreational Center.
She was preceded in death by her mother and father, Willie Mae Miller-Bowman and James Bowman; brother, Edward Miller.
She leaves to cherish her loving memory her nephew, JaVonne Bledsoe, whom she raised as her very own son; six sisters, Betty(Michael) Thompson, Veronica (Jerry) Martin, Gwendolyn Bowman, Kimberly Miller, Johona Skelton-Miller, Melissa Miller, all of Chattanooga; four brothers, Jerry L. Miller, James Bowman, Thomas (Kathy) Skelton-Miller, all of Chattanooga, and Gregory Skelton-Miller of Atlanta; a special and devoted niece and nephew, Jaha' Cobia Kelley, Elijah Parker, and a host of other relatives and dear friends.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 6, at Mt. Canaan Baptist Church. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
The body will lie in state after noon on Sunday, Nov. 5, and family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. on Sunday in the chapel at John P. Franklin Funeral Home, 1101 Dodds Ave., 423-622-9995.