Delma June (Veach) Bowers (1931 - 2013)

Born 28 Jun 1931 in Moravia, Appanoose, Iowa, United States

Wife of Dean Edward Wintermute — married 27 Apr 1955 in Maryville, Nodaway, Missouri, United States

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(Ottumwa Daily Courier May 4, 1955 page 22) MORAVIA---Miss Delma June Veach, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Veach of Moravia, and Dean E. Wintermute, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Wintermute of Guilford, Mo., were married in the Methodist church at Maryville, Mo., April 27. The Rev. Mork Bryan, officiating. The bride was graduated from the Moravia high school in 1949 and from AIB in Des Moines in 1950She is employed in the president’s office of the Iowa Power and Light Co. in Des Moines. The bridegroom was graduated from the high school at Bedford in 1949 and from Northwest State Teacher college at Maryville in 1953. He now attends Des Moines Stil College of Osteopathy and Surgery. They are at home in Des Moines.

(The Paris News October 6, 2013 section A page 5) Delma June Veach Wintermute Bowers Delma June Veach Wintermute Bowers, 82, passed away Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, in Rockwall. Funeral services are scheduled for 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6, at First United Methodist Church in Cooper with the Rev. Steve Cook, the Rev. Leroy Reaves and the Rev. Doug Wintermute officiating. Visitation will be from 1:30-3 p.m. at the church. Interment will be at Oaklawn Cemetery in Cooper under the direction of Dela Funeral Home. Delma was born June 28, 1931, in Moravia, Iowa, to Albert and Martha Veach. She attended business college in Iowa and later received her nursing home administrator license in Texas. Delma was a long-time member of First United Methodist Church of Cooper where she served in many leadership roles including singing in the choir, teaching the high school Sunday school class for many years, being a member of United Methodist Women, the Friendship Sunday School class, and beginning the church’s prayer ministry which continues to this day. She was also a member of the Junior Afflatus Club, the Cooper Garden Club, and was a 50-yearmember of the Order of the Eastern Star. She was the first female Cooper IDS School Board and worked actively in the CHS Band Boosters for many years. She worked as secretary to the president of Iowa Power and Light for four years, co-administrator of Wintermute Hospital, the senior secretary in the office of Testing and Orientation and Relations at East Texas State University in Commerce, and as administrator of Greenville Nursing Home in Greenville and Birchwood Manor Nursing Home in Cooper. Delma will be remembered for her loving heart and wiliness to help others. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, George Bowers; and a brother, Duane Veach. She is survived by six children: daughter, Diane and son-in-law, Scotty Stegall of Cooper, daughter, Delaine and son-in-law, Tom Fast of Garland, son, Doug and daughter-in-law, Pam Wintermute of DeKalb, son, Dalen and daughter-in-law, Lisa Wintermute of Trophy Club, daughter, Delinda Leatherwood of Cooper, and son, Dohrman and daughter-in-law, Francie Wintermute of North Richland Hills, stepson, Michael and Liz Bowers of Grand Saline, stepson, Steve and Sheilah Bowers of Garland, and stepdaughter, Pauletta and Ronnie Schrick of Garland. She is also survived by 18 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to the Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America (http://www.ccfa.org\), American Heart Association (http://www.heart.org\HEARTORG\), or the First United Methodist Church of Cooper (http://www.northtexasumc.org\churches\FUMC-Cooper.html). Online condolences may be made at www.deltafuneralhome.com.

Sources

• *Ottumwa Daily Courier May 4, 1955 page 22
• The Moravia Union June 4, 1964 page 1 birth announcement of son Dalen
• The Moravia Union May 15, 1961 page 1 birth announcement of daughter Delaine
• The Moravia Union September 14, 1961 page 1 birth announcement of son Douglas
• The Paris News January 10, 1982 section A page 3 birth announcement of daughter Diane's twins Shelly and Shawn
• The Paris News October 6, 2013 section A page 5