Mollie Clifford Bowling, 85, passed away Sunday, November 29, 2015, at her home in White Sulphur Springs, WV.
She was born June 26, 1930, in Ronceverte, WV, to Howard Patrick and Lucy Guy McClung Clifford.
Mollie graduated from Greenbrier College for Women in Lewisburg, WV, and worked as a traveling music teacher for Greenbrier County in 1953-1954. She had a radio program for one- and two-room schools. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority and was a Mu Phi Epsilon Music Honorary. She went back to school in 1979 to obtain a B.A. from Concord College and earned her master’s degree in 1983 from West Virginia University, where she majored in pipe organ. Mollie was a church organist for many churches over the years. She taught music in White Sulphur Springs Elementary School, grades k-6, from 1979 until her retirement in 1990.
In addition to her parents, Mollie was preceded in death by her husband, William Rufus Bowling Jr.; brothers, Howard Patrick Clifford Jr. and Basil Keffer Clifford; and a sister, Elizabeth Clifford Early.
Survivors include her children, William Rufus Bowling III and wife, Karen, Robert Howard Bowling and wife, Stephanie, Elizabeth Dolin and husband, Larry, and Thomas Bradford Bowling and wife, Emily; grandchildren, William Rufus Bowling IV and wife, Judi, Jackson Lee Bowling, Mollie Beth Harmon, Katie Bowling, Ben Bowling, Caroline Bowling, and Max Bowling; great-grandchildren, William Bowling and Karsen Counts; and sister, Annabell Clifford Crawford of Reedsville, GA.
Funeral services will be held at 1 PM on Wednesday, December 2, 2015, at the White Sulphur Springs Presbyterian Church with Pastor Ike Hughes officiating. Burial will follow at the Rosewood Cemetery in Lewisburg.
The family will receive friends from 11:30 AM until time of the service at the church.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 6931 Arlington Road, Suite 200, Bethesda, MD 20814, or HospiceCare, 1265 Maplewood Avenue, Lewisburg, WV 24901.
Online condolences may be made by visiting www.WallaceandWallaceFH.com.
Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home in Lewisburg is in charge of arrangements.
Obituary originally published in the November 30, 2015, edition of The West Virginia Daily News.
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