Joseph Fielding Bowman, 95, died 25 May 2019 after a 3-day hospice stay. Born 25 November to former mayor John Fife Bowman and Melissa Edna Smith, grandson of Joseph F. Smith, sixth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Married Jane Elizabeth Russell 22 November 1961 in Salt Lake Temple.
Attended University of Missouri, earned BA and MA in English from the University of Utah; minor fields philosophy, journalism, French, and Spanish; doctoral studies in linguistics and rhetoric at Columbia University, NYC, and University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
Early employment: Zion’s Printing and Publishing Co., Independence, MO; D&RGW RR Traffic Dept.; UofU Medical School, Pathology Dept.; U.S. Secret Service; Military Service in U.S. Army Field Artillery Staff Sgt. WWII, 1943-1946
Professional Organization: NEA, UEA, UCTE, UART, SLTA, League of Utah Writers, Utah Poetry Society.
Teaching Career: 35 years, secondary school system: chairman of three English depts.; executive boards of UCTE, UART, LUW; Rhetoric faculty, University of Illinois; English faculty, U of Utah; extension faculty, Columbia College, MO; delegate to conferences of NCTE and UCTE; editor of educational journals and curricular guides; critic and judge of Utah State literary contests; author of articles in NEA Education Today and national English Journal; poems published in Utah Sings, decennial volume of Utah Poetry Society; winner of first place awards in contests sponsored by League of Utah Writers and Utah Poetry Society; Kiwanis Club Award as outstanding teacher; appointed master teacher to inaugurate BYU Teacher Internship Program.
LDS Missionary service at Independence, MO, Central States Mission; East Mill Creek North Stake mission with wife; mission to Bordeaux, France with wife; mission to Friedrichsdorf, Germany, Frankfurt Temple with wife; Salt Lake Temple ordinance worker for 19 years three days a week with wife.
Superintendent of Sunday School, Ensign Stake 18th Ward and East Mill Creek 11th Ward; High Priest Quorum Instructor and Gospel Doctrine Instructor in East Mill Creek 11th and Salt Lake Stake 14th Ward; pianist in Toulouse, France Ward; Frankfurt Temple organist; Beziers, France Branch President.
Survived by wife, Jane Elizabeth Russell Bowman, and four children: Richard Russell Bowman (Sydney), Carol Diane Diamse (Regino), Janet Elaine Peterson (Chad), and Douglas Fielding Bowman (Caroline); 12 grandchildren; and one sister, Ruth (Howell) Cannon. Preceded in death by parents, brother Richard, sisters Dorothy (Allan) Acomb, Katherine (Quentin) Cannon, brother John Hyrum (Ellen).
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at the Salt Lake 14th Ward chapel at 142 W 200 N, Salt Lake City, UT 84103 at 12:00 p.m. with a viewing from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Friends and family may call 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Chapel at 3401 S Highland Dr. Salt Lake City, UT. Interment at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park in the Garden of Roses mausoleum.
