Rose passed away on Thursday evening, December 3, 2020 at the Shenandoah Medical Center.

The funeral service will be live streamed on the funeral home Facebook Page (Hackett-Livingston Funeral Home, be sure to like our page prior to the service) on Wednesday, December 9th at 2:00 p.m. Graveside services will be held on Thursday, December 10th at 2:00 p.m. at the IOOF Cemetery in Indianola, Iowa.

Rose Evelyn Marie (Frazier) Bowery, 95, of Shenandoah, Iowa went to her Heavenly Home to be with her Savior and beloved late husband, Robert "Bob" Bowery on December 3rd, 2020 due to Covid. She was the third child of A. Leo and Pearl Marie (Moon) Frazier, born on May 13, 1925 in rural Madison county near Macksburg, IA. She was raised in Indianola where she attended the public schools and was reared in the Indianola Friend's Church.

After graduation, during WW II, she was truly "Rosie the Riveter" as she made rivets for the bombers in the Newton Maytag plant. She attended Kletzing College in Oskaloosa majoring in Home Ec and minoring in Music. When Robert "Bob" W Bowery returned from the War and walked into Church on a Sunday night, Rose was singing a hymn with her beautiful soprano voice. They both knew they were in love so soon after, on November 18, 1943, they were married. The 'town girl' became a 'farm wife' living on the Bowery farm for several years where they had their three children and ran a dairy farm just outside of town. After a two-year drought, a tornado that took the roof off of their home, and she was hospitalized with polio for several months, the family moved back to town where they raised their children. She attended Simpson College and Drake University where she obtained a Masters in Education and Psychology. She was employed by Simpson College and the Des Moines Public School District as an elementary teacher at Watrous, a vice principal at Horace Mann and a teacher and Educational Diagnostitian at Orchard Place. She founded the Warren County Genealogical Society and was a sought after soprano soloist for many weddings and funerals in the area. She was an active church member in the Indianola Church of the Nazarene, the McAllen Church of the Nazarene, the Ankeny Church of the Nazarene, and the Shenandoah Church of the Nazarene. After retirement, they took an assignment with the World Relief Organization to the Philippines where she trained teachers to teach the refugees with an American approach to education so the refugee children could adapt more easily to the American classroom. Since her husband passed away in 2008, she has spent much time in her 'Devotional Chair' where she told stories, wrote and shared her personal insights and inspired biblical wisdom with her many FB friends.

She leaves behind to mourn her loss, her sister Dorothy D (Frazier) Kading, her daughter, Constance "Connie" L. Thomason-Combs, two sons, Dr John R. (Nancy) Bowery, James "Jim" A. (Jan) Bowery, a foster son, James (Lorena) Nutting, and honorary family Diane (David) Sawyer, five grandchildren, Kim (Nathan) Sheets, Richard "Rick" (Crystal) Thomason, Melissa "Missy" Sawyer (Josh Hainie), Robert "Rob" Bowery, Rachel Rose Bowery, Dr William "Will" Nutting, step grandchildren, Dave (Patty) Combs, Cindy (Tim) Adams, honorary grandsons Danny (Heather) Sawyer and Riley Pritchett, many great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren, three cousins and many nieces and nephews.

Waiting at Heaven's Gate is her cherished late husband, Bob, her parents, her two brothers, A. Leo "Junior" Frazier and Robert "Bob" (Doris) Frazier, son-in-law Richard "Dick" E. Thomason, and her brother-in-law Donald Kading.

Memorials can be mailed to: Nancy Bowery, 501 Sleepy Hollow Dr, Shenandoah, IA