BOWERS, Orpha Delight

The White Mountain Independent, Show Low, Arizona - 12/02/2003 Orpha Delight Bowers, 56, died Nov. 27, 2003. Delight was born in Snowflake in the old Maternity Hospital. She was raised in Clay Springs where she attended elementary school and attended Snowflake Union High School where she graduated with the class of 1963 at the age of 16. She attended BYU in Provo, Utah on a scholarship. Delight worked as a Bookkeeper for Babbitt Brothers in Holbrook and for an electric company in California for two years. She later attended Mesa Community College. It was while in California that she first developed symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. On July 16, 1970 she married Robert L. Bowers in the Mesa Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was serving a career in the US Army and they lived in Germany for seven years as well as Virginia and Texas. Delight served as an organist in the church and in Primary. She loved to ride horses and to travel. She loved giving service to others, even though for the last several years of her life she was confined to a wheelchair. Delight loved serving in the church and especially loved attending the temple. She was a brilliant person and excelled at whatever she set out to do, even in her afflictions. Delight appreciated all who helped her, especially the care givers at RTA Hospice for the past few months. Delight is survived by her husband, Robert L. Bowers of Clay Springs; two sons, Robert D. (Melinda) Bowers of Detroit, Michigan, Norman D. Bowers of Salt Lake City, Utah; one daughter, Natalie D. Bowers of Clay Springs; three brothers, Harold M. Jackson, Loren J. Jackson and M. Bruce Jackson of Mesa; three sisters, Irene Wimmer of Mesa, Reba Clarson of Clay Springs, and Debra Perkins of Clay Springs; and three grandchildren. Funeral services were held Monday, Dec. 1 at the Pinedale Chapel the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Interment will be in Clay Springs Cemetery. Owens Mortuary of Show Low handled the arrangements.