Columnist Linda Bowles dies She stopped writing last year to care for late husband

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, May 15, 2003 | Joseph Farah

[JohnHuang2]

Linda Bowles, the firebrand conservative nationally syndicated columnist known for her razor-sharp rhetoric, has died at the age of 51, just a year after her beloved husband, Warren, succumbed to brain cancer.

Linda Bowles

Bowles quit writing her column in February 2002 so she could take care of her dying husband and so they could spend together whatever time he had remaining.

Her poignant last column, titled "The man I love," explained it all.

"The only thing he didn't teach me was how to live without him," she wrote.

Bowles died April 30, her only child, Michelle, said yesterday.

"After the loss of her beloved husband-hero Warren in May of 2002, (my mother) suffered from severe depression that she never overcame," said Michelle Bowles. "The coroner's report will tell you she purposely overdosed on antidepressants. The reality is she died due to complications of the heart. If you knew Linda, you knew her beloved Warren. To say she had a weak or failed heart would be untrue. To say she suffered from a broken heart would be an understatement."

Out of respect for her last wishes, no memorial will be held.

See Linda Bowles column archive.

[JohnHuang2]

My condolences to family and friends. She'll be missed.

Thursday, May 15, 2003

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[Jean S]

This is terrible news. She will be missed and her family has my prayers.
I loved her columns.

[f.Christian]

The best of the best ... whatta loss --- Inspiration !

[goldstategop]

My condolences to her family and friends too. What's sweetly poignant about this sad news is husband and wife will now be together forever. It doesn't often happen too soon. Linda Bowles' last column was a touching account of the sacrifices people make to take care of their loved ones. In these cynical and hard bitten times, it turns out there's real meaning to the vows people take when they are married. In this case it was kept til "death do us part." Bowles will indeed be missed and she touched all of our lives forever.

[Lancey Howard]

bttt

[Jewels1091]

I'm so sorry that her dpression wasn't seen and help given! How horrible for their only child!

[JohnHuang2]

My sentiments exactly.

[goldstategop]

Yes being an only child myself I can relate. Its hard to get used to the loss of both parents too soon. Its even harder when your surviving parent dies from a broken heart.

[f.Christian]

The archive link above isn't working.

... archive !

[NormsRevenge]

Condolences to Linda's family and friends.

She will be missed by the KSFO crew and audience as well.

[LauraJean]

I remember reading her last columne and crying. I feel like crying now.

[Post Toasties]

I'm very sorry to hear this.

[Eva]

This is a sad story, but it doesn't explain a suicide. My own mother threatened suicide numerous times after the death of my father at age 52, but she didn't do it because she had too many responsibilities.

[spodefly]

She was the only colunmist that I have ever written to thank for a column. Her writing showed a clear sense of values, expressed with straight-forward intelligence ... uncommonly good.

I'm sad she is gone.

[Howlin]

Wow.

[Timesink]

One of the cruelest ironies about clinical depression is that it makes society DESPISE you. During a time when you most need love and support, your supposed friends will abandon you as if you were a SARS alpha patient. So you just end up feeling even more miserable, and then more "friends" abandon you ... I don't blame her one bit for choosing to leave this earth. Our society is not a loving one towards people like her.

[Timesink]

This is a sad story, but it doesn't explain a suicide.

If she was on antidepressants, then she had clinical depression. That explains suicide.

[TruthNtegrity]

Oh, how sad.

To the poster above who states that it's too bad her depression wasn't discovered and treated, you might read what the daughter state is on the death certificate: "overdose of antidepressants".

I know about broken hearts, and they take a long time to heal. There are times, even now, 10 years later, when the loss of my fiance just takes my breath away, and I feel like my heart is going to crack inside my body.

I loved her columns, and can only add my prayers to her family for their loss.

[Tall_Texan]

Sad indeed but I find it odd that it would take two weeks for the news to trickle out. Certainly there was somebody else who would have informed others.

[f.Christian]

No one posed the issue more forthrightly than did Isabel Patterson in her book "The God of the Machine," written in 1943: "There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure." She declared that "every politically controlled education system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy, sooner or later. ... A tax-supported compulsory educational system --- is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

Patterson wasn't talking about Cuba, she was talking about America. Her words are prophetic. It is plain to see, for anyone who wishes to see, that the government of the United States has begun the process of usurping parental rights, and dictating what our children may and may not know, believe, think and value.