Lois Kleinman Bowers

TALLULAH — Lois Kleinman Bowers died Monday, May 23, 2011, at Olive Branch Senior Center in Tallulah. She was 96.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at Frank J. Fisher Funeral Home in Vicksburg with the Rev. Kent Campbell officiating. Burial will be at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from noon until 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Bowers was born in Vicksburg to the late Albert Lynd and Ruby Tucker Kleinman. She was a former employee of Culkin Academy working as an assistant cafeteria manager for more than 30 years. She was a Sunday school teacher for 5-year-olds at Woodlawn Baptist Church, a leader of the Ladies World Mission Group and a member of Senior Saints.

She was preceded in death by her father, Albert Lynd Kleinman; her mother, Ruby Inez Tucker Kleinman; her husband of 58 years, James Adolph Bowers Sr.; a son, James A. “Jimmy” Bowers Jr.; brothers, Albert Magee “Red” Kleinman, Walter Lynd “Bee” Kleinman and Harry Lee “Wooty” Kleinman; and a sister, Mary Clyde “Cissie” Schultz.

Survivors include a daughter, Linda Bowers Vance of Vicksburg; two sons, William A. Bowers and David Lynd Bowers, both of Vicksburg; grandchildren, Beverly Bowers James and Belinda Bowers Guillott, both of Gonzales, La., James Adolph “Trey” Bowers III of Burleson, Texas, William Scott Bowers of Brookhaven, Travis Wayne Vance Jr. of Humboldt, Texas, Linda Elizabeth “Beth” Vance of Bay St. Louis, Donna Bowers and Laura Katherine “Kate” Bowers, both of Vicksburg; and great-grandchildren, James Charles “Chaz” Bruno, Elizabeth Dawn Bowers, David Benjamin Bowers, Caroline R. Bowers, Harrison Thomas Vance, Alexis Catherine Vance, Grayson Wayne Vance, Carley Musgrove and Ruby Rose Elizabeth Harthcock.

Pallbearers will be Travis W. Vance Jr., Benson Kleinman, John Kleinman, Lee Musgrove, Trey Bowers, Scott Bowers, Jay Middleton and John Barnes.

Honorary pallbearers will be Phil Irwin, David White, Cecil Bryant and Chaz Bruno.

Memorials may be made to Woodlawn Baptist Church Building Fund, 2310 Culkin Road, Vicksburg, MS 39183.