Obituary of Margaret Bowen

Resident of Old Greenwich Margaret C. Bowen, a longtime resident of Old Greenwich, died on September 7, 2011 at The Nathaniel Witherell Home in Greenwich after a short illness. She was 79. Born Alice Margaret Clarke, she grew up in Scarborough, NY, where her father was for many years the executive manager of Sleepy Hollow Country Club. She made her debut in 1949 at the Sleepy Hollow Assembly. She attended the Walnut Hill School in Natick, MA, and graduated from Briarcliff Junior College in Briarcliff, NY. Following college, Peggy Clarke worked first in New York City with a Wall Street brokerage firm, and later, for several years, with Union Carbide Corporation. Following her marriage to Robert W. Bowen, in 1956, she worked part time as assistant to Emily Kimbrough, a celebrated writer and co-author with Cornelia Otis Skinner of a bestselling memoir, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. In 1963, the family moved to Europe, where they lived first in Geneva and later in London. Upon returning to the U.S. the Bowens settled in Old Greenwich, where Peggy obtained her real estate license and worked for Doris Wolff Associates in Old Greenwich and Putnam Associates in Greenwich. She was active in the Old Greenwich Garden Club and enjoyed playing bridge, sewing and needlepoint. She moved to Nathaniel Witherell in1998. Mrs. Bowen is survived by her son Gregory and daughter-in-law Sheila Bowen of Trumbull, CT, daughter Jennifer Bowen of Livermore, CA, and daughter Elizabeth and son-in-law Louis Forte of Norwalk, CT, and her two grandchildren: Max and Harrison. Funeral Information Funeral services will take place on Monday, September 12, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. directly in St. Catherine of Siena Church, Trumbull for a Mass of Christian Burial. Interment will follow in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Briarcliff, NY. There will be no calling hours. Donations Information In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Friends of Nathaniel Witherell, 70 Parsonage Rd., Greenwich, CT 06830. Phone: 203 618 4227.