Kenneth Wayne Bowie

Kenneth Wayne Bowie,71, passed away January 27, 2021 at Huguley Hospital in Burleson. A visitation will be held from 4:00pm to 6:00pm, Tuesday, February 2, at Lucas & Blessing Funeral Home. A memorial service will be held at 11:00am, Wednesday, February 3, at Travis Avenue Baptist Church, 800 W. Berry in Fort Worth. A private family burial will follow at Burleson Cemetery.
Ken was born November 22, 1949 in Holton, Kansas to Earl and Melva Tosh Bowie. He grew up in McLouth, Kansas and graduated from McLouth High School in 1967. After high school, he attended Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas where he received a BS (1971), Masters (1974) and PhD. in International Agricultural/Community Development (1979.) Ken began a vocational Agriculture program in 1972 at Burden High School (Kansas.) He married Linda Orton in 1970 in Topeka, Kansas, and they were happily married for 50 years.
Ken and Linda went to Peru as Southern Baptist missionary journeymen from 1974-76 and then were appointed as career agricultural missionaries to Peru in 1979. He loved working with the farmers in the Andes area of Cajamarca helping them with crops, livestock, potable water wells, and irrigation canals with the goal of helping them know Jesus personally and the assurance of eternal life for those who believed. In 2003, they transferred to Ovalle, Chile where they served until retirement in 2013. Since then, Ken has remained active in mission work in Peru and Cuba, working with Tom Cox World Ministries. In July, 2020, he was able to send much needed PPE to Peru because Covid-19 was spreading so quickly and hospital workers needed it desperately.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Earl and Melva Bowie.
Ken is survived by his wife, Linda of Crowley, TX; daughters, Marci Wessel and husband, David of McKinney, TX, Melissa Baize and husband, Justin of Fort Worth, TX, and Lori Aebischer and husband, Chad of Burleson, TX; brothers, Gary Bowie of Austin, TX, Keith Bowie and wife, Debra of Jennings, KS, and Dennis Bowie and wife, Penny of Lawrence, KS; grandchildren, Nathanael and Lucas Wessel, Shane and Sadie Baize, Landon, Liana, Lindie, and Lilly Aebischer; and nieces and nephews and other relatives.
In lieu of flowers the family requests memorial donations be made to: Tom Cox World Ministries, PO Box 7508, Van Buren, AR 72956.
The family wishes to extend their gratitude to Lucas & Blessing Funeral Home, Travis Avenue Baptist Church, and family and friends from around the world.
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”
Matthew 28:19