Memorial Services for Guy Moore Bowles of Smyrna are scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday at the Collins Memorial United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Randy Walworth officiating. Mr. Bowles, 81, died Thursday at the Brighton Gardens assisted living facility of Vinings. He suffered from congestive heart failure. Surviving are two sisters, Thelma Williamson of Atlanta and Faye Folds of Smyrna, brother Billy Bowles of Sandy Springs, and numerous nieces and nephews, several of whom will participate in the memorial service. Emory University received the remains under its body donor program. He was predeceased by brothers Fonnie, Leonard and Doyel Bowles and sisters Etheleen Bowles and Ernesteen Etheridge. A son of James S. and Harriet Bowles, both deceased. Guy Bowles was born in Marietta and grew up in the Bolton community, now in Atlanta. Self-employed, he was a manufacturers' representative until he retired several years ago. He was a lifelong member of the Collins Church and served on the board of stewards and evangelism committee and as superintendent of Sunday Schools. His attention, and visitations, to the elderly church members were legendary at the church. Mr. Bowles lost an eye on Okinawa in World War II, in which he earlier served in North Africa and France and was a radarman on Corsica during the allied invasion at Normandy, where his Army unit's assignment was to jam Nazi radar to facilitate the landing. His wartime decorations included the European, African, Middle East and Asiatic-Pacific service medals and American campaign medal. Upon graduation from West Fulton High School, where he played baseball and football, he enlisted in 1942 in the Army reserves, which sent him to Georgia Tech and N.C. State University for training in the then-new field of radar technology. After his Army service he received degrees in business administration at the University of Georgia, where he also was on the baseball team, and in law from Atlanta Law School, where he earned both a bachelor's and Masters' degree. During and after college, he played for the Bolton Sunday league amateur baseball team.
Published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Mar. 11, 2006