Leona Mae BowmerJuly 28, 1935 - April 8, 2014Our beloved mother and grandmother, Leona Mae (Willey) Bowmer, 78, passed away April 8, 2014. She was born on July 28, 1935 in Grangeville, Idaho, and was the youngest daughter of Wilbur Roy C. and Roxie Lavina (Huntley) Willey. She had fond memories of childhood days on her family's farm in northern Idaho with her siblings. On June 1, 1957 she married Richard Bowmer in St. Maries, Idaho and began a family that she dearly loved. They spent the first three years of their marriage in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She left a nursing career to be a stay-at-home mom to her six children and considered them to be her greatest accomplishment. She cherished her seven grandchildren: Christina Phillips, Kayla, Tom, Aaron, Rachel and Daniel Hansen, and Sara (Hansen) Cummings, and loved spending time with her great-grandchildren, Kyle, Daisy and Rose Cummings. She will be remembered for her warm and fun personality, her ability to play the piano by ear, and devotion to the Dallas Cowboys and North Carolina Tarheels. She volunteered with many community organizations over the years including PTA, Girl Scouts and the Neighborhood Watch Executive Committee. She prized her association with her friends, the ladies of the ISU Faculty Women Sewing Club. She was a devout Catholic and served on the Catholic Council of Women as well as St. Joseph's Parish Board. She spent many years serving others as a member of the funeral luncheon committee. After her children were grown she worked for Bannock County Indigent Services and SEICAA.Survived by her husband of 56 years, Dr. Richard G. Bowmer of Pocatello; six children: Mary Phillips, Richard T. Bowmer, and Ed Bowmer of Pocatello; Linda (Ben) Hansen of Salt Lake City, Utah; Theresa Gifford of Boise, Idaho and Jim (Nicole) Bowmer of Sacramento, California; one brother, J. Burton Willey of Kamiah, Idaho, and two sisters Mildred Mendenhall of Post Falls, Idaho and Hazel Kilpatrick of Riggins, Idaho.The Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be held 7:00 P.M. on Tuesday, April 15th at Downard Funeral Home, 241 North Garfield Ave in Pocatello. The family will receive friends at the viewing and visitation following the Rosary at 7:30 P.M. The Mass of a Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11:30 A.M. on Wednesday, April 16th at Holy Spirit Catholic Community, St. Joseph's Chapel at 421 North Hayes in Pocatello. Interment will be at Mountain View Cemetery, section 50. Arrangements are under the care and Direction of Downard Funeral Home, 241 North Garfield Ave., Pocatello