From Buffalo-The Right Rev. David C. Bowman, the ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, died Fridav in Cleveland. He was 82.Bishop Bowman was born in Oil City, Pa., and attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he earned a degree in 1955, and Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va.
He served in the Army from 1955 to 1957 and was stationed at Fort Jackson, S.C.He was ordained to the diaconate in June 1960 by Bishop Beverly Tucker of Ohio, and later to the priesthood in December 1960 by Bishop Nelson Burroughs of Ohio. Bishop Bowman married the former Nancy Lou Betts in 1962, and the two raised three children.
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