ANNITA GLORIA BOWLER, 77, of 45 Walchenbach Circle, Pittsfield, died
Thursday, March 6, at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield following a short illness.
Born in Winooski, Vermont, June 20, 1930, the daughter of Leo Blondin
and Dorothy Viens Blondin Lemieux, she was a 1948 graduate of St. Joseph Central High
School and a 1951 graduate of St. Luke's School of Nursing.A registered nurse, Mrs. Bowler began her career at the former St. Luke's Hospital where she worked in maternity and in the hospital's first Coronary Care Unit. She also
worked as an IV therapist at the former Pittsfield General Hospital and at Berkshire Medical Center. Following her
hospital career, Mrs. Bowler worked as an occupational health nurse at both the General Electric Medical
Center and at Berkshire Life Insurance
Company. She retired in 2007 with more than 59 years of nursing service.
Mrs. Bowler was a communicant of St. Mark Church and a communicant of the former Notre Dame Church where she was a longtime member of its St.
Anne's Guild. She was a member of the St. Luke's School of Nursing Alumni
Association, a member of the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses,
and a member of the National Association of Occupational Health Nurses.
Mrs. Bowler was an avid bridge player and over the years has donated more than eight gallons of blood to the American red Cross. She also served as a Hospice volunteer.
Her husband, Thomas E. Bowler, whom she married August 30, 1952,died April 10, 2001.
Mrs. Bowler is survived by two sons, Thomas N. Bowler and his wife, Dayle,
and David J. Bowler and his wife, Laura, all of Pittsfield; five daughters, Linda
Corridan of Holliston, Massachusetts, Donna Mattoon and her husband, John, of Canaan,
New York, Melissa Bowler of Pittsfield, Mary Murphy and her husband, Stephen, of
Pittsfield, and Cynthia Dombek and her husband, John, of Longmeadow; a brother,
Robert Blondin of Norwich, Connecticut, and a sister, Norma Rennie of Corsicana, Texas;
and twenty-one grandchildren, Elizabeth, John, and Anna Corridan; Caitlyn, John,
Maura, Emily, and Melissa Mattoon; Thomas, Sarah, Meghan, and Katie Bowler; Molly,
Colleen, Connor, and Erin Murphy; Jack and Clara Dombek, and David, Carolyn, and
Derek Bowler. She was pre-deceased by a son-in-law, John Corridan and a grand-daughter, Caroline Laura Mattoon.


FUNERAL NOTICE: Funeral services for ANNITA GLORIA BOWLER will be Monday,
March 10, at 12:15 p.m., from DERY FUNERAL HOME, with a Liturgy of
Christian Burial at 1:00 p.m., at St. Mark Church, celebrated by Rev. John
C. Salatino, Pastor. Burial will follow in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Calling hours
will be Sunday, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., at the Funeral Home. In lieu of
flowers, contributions in memory of Mrs. Bowler may be made to the
American Heart Association or to Shriner's Hospital, both in care of the Funeral Home, 54 Bradford Street, Pittsfield.

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