Carol Bowers

Carol Ann Bowers born December 15, 1944 in Waterloo, Iowa and died the morning after her 74th birthday in Omaha, Nebraska. Her final evening was spent with her children, Brenda Ahntholz of California, Ben and Bryan Scherbring of Omaha, Nebraska, after a long sickness and four-weeks of hospice. We shared our favorite memories with her and we sang her happy birthday. Carol was a loving mother and grandmother to six grandchildren: Abby Scherbring, 14, Jacob Scherbing, 14, Joslin Scherbring, 12, Lily Ahntholz, 12, Leo Ahntholz, 11 and Charlie Scherbring, 11. Ben’s wife Shannon Scherbring and Bryan’s wife Becky Scherbring were amazingly supportive in Carol’s care and Marilyn Rosenberg Tipp was Carol’s life-long best friend who loved and laughed with her through all of life’s ups and downs. All of us will miss her and will hold her in our hearts. Carol loved reading, dogs, decorating, collecting jewelry, the color purple, her family farm in Reinbeck Iowa, and going to lunch with her close friends and family. She was a talented artist, biologist, and life-long learner having gone back for her Master’s degree in Counseling in her early fifties. She loved to laugh and had a vivid imagination. Her passion for Stephen King novels spanned decades and she passed this love on to her grandchildren who are enjoying her favorite books, The Shining, It, and Salem’s Lot. Carol is survived by her brother Harold Bowers Junior and proceeded by their parents were Harold David Bowers and Lulu Blanche Schneekloth Bowers of Reinbeck, Iowa. “When love leaves the world, all the hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.”—Stephen King