SIKESTON -- Memorial service for Lee Austin Bowman Sr. of Sikeston will be held at 5 p.m. today at First United Methodist Church. Dr. Jim Davis and the Rev. Sandy Schaller will officiate.

Friends may call at the church from 3:30 p.m. until service time.

Bowman, 76, died Wednesday, March 29, 2000, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

He was born June 30, 1923, in Sikeston, son of Lee Reed and Verna Cox Bowman. He and Cathleen Carpenter were married Aug. 28, 1948, in Hamburg, Iowa.

A 1948 graduate of the University of Missouri, he was a fullback on its 1946-47 football team.

He attended Virginia Military Institute, and was a pilot and flight instructor in the U.S. Army Air Corps.

Bowman retired as president of Scott County Milling Co., known now as Sikeston Cargill.

He was a past vice president of Sikeston Chamber of Commerce, past president of Sikeston Board of Education, past member of Missouri Delta Medical Center Board of Directors, and was a past member of the Board of Directors and Emeritus Board of First National Bank.

Bowman was a past president of Sikeston Jaycees and vice president of Missouri Jaycees. He was a 32nd Degree Mason.

He was a past member of the Board of Directors of the University of Missouri Alumni Association, district representative of the University of Missouri Athletic Advisory Council, and member of the University of Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Committee.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Lee Bowman Jr. and Roy Bowman; two daughters, Marilyn Barkett and Camille Schardon; and eight grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother.