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 Name of woman being honored by the square.
Mary Turner Bowdish and Bonita Bowdish Casber
Description of square.
Angel blowing a horn
What would you like to tell us about the woman being honored?
Mary Bowdish, age 58, died in 1962, of inoperable abdominal cancer of undetermined origin.
I, her daughter, Bonita Bowdish Casber, had ovarian and uterine cancer, age 54 in 1980, diagnosed as a result of a positive Pap test. As a Stage 2 malignancy, surgery was followed with a moderate amount of chemotherapy for nine months.
A year later, in reviewing the unfinished goals in may life, and with the encouragement of my doctors, I bought a piano, and engaged a teacher – Suzanne, a warm, supportive woman. When she asked why I wanted to study piano at this time in my life, I told her about my cancer, and my dream to get beyond the first two easy pages of “Clair de Lune”.
That Christmas, Suzanne gave me a tall, spun-glass angel. I placed it on the piano and added the two small angels I had had for years, representing my two daughters. Soon friends and relatives began adding to my “collection,” and I now have dozens of angels.
So the quilt-square angel represents the care and love of many people, and the memory of Mama who died too young, perhaps from ovarian cancer, which I have survived.
Quilter contributing square and their relationship to the person being honored.
Bonita Bowdish Casber, daughter, 22-year survivor.
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