[SlickWillard]

Bowles's WorldNetDaily profile is here:

http://worldnetdaily.com/speakers/lbowles.asp

Yesterday's FR thread, which did not give a cause of death, is here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/911848/posts

[mikeb704]

How incredibly sad when one gives up all hope.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Yesterday's FR thread, which did not give a cause of death, is here:

Yesterday's thread said: "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."

[Joe Brower]

Well, damn. What a sad bit of news.

Rest well, Ms. Bowles.

[tscan54]

I loved that woman so much.

[nutmeg]

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[mabelkitty]

Oh, this makes me so sad. This is the first I've heard of her, but the pain of loss must have been so overwhelming.

[Sangria]

I saved many of her columns and had occasion to communicate with her through e-mail. I have missed her so much and wondered if and when she would return. I have been fighting back the tears all morning after I read of her death. My heart goes out to her daughter.

[RomanCatholicProlifer]

Was she a Catholic?


RCP

[savedbygrace]

I remember reading her column many years ago in which she wrote about the death of her father. I recall thinking that she was so deeply depressed by his death that it was downright scary.

Maybe her reaction to her husband's death was amplified by that experience.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Nationally syndicated columnist dies - May 15, 2003

How nice of you to change the title of the article. Very thoughtful.

[CyberCowboy777]

Rest in Peace Linda

I read her often when I lived in Chico, CA.

[goodnesswins]

Oh...how sad...I remember now reading her last column about her husband's illness.....what a loss.

[cgk]

Damn damn and damn.

We've lost a GREAT writer, a GREAT woman.

Overloading the melting pot: Linda Bowles examines impact of cultural divisions on U.S. citizens

The reason for the season: Linda Bowles shows why birth of Christ most significant event in history

The Man I Love (Columnist Linda Linda Bowles Pays Tribute To Her Dying Husband, Writes Final Column)

Political calculus: Linda Bowles denounces Daschle's agenda to demonize Republicans

Time for outrage! Linda Bowles reports latest results in America's public schools

A reason to live, a reason to die: Linda Bowles explains why Democrats are scared of tax cuts

Decision time: Linda Bowles asks: Is human life a gift or a commodity?

Badgering Bush on global warming: Linda Bowles points to flaws in media coverage

Don't forget Waco: Linda Bowles ties OKC bombing to Reno's flub in Texas

Linda Bowles: Clinton's apology (FreeRepublic Mentioned)

9-headed Caesar: Linda Bowles hammers Supreme Court over partial-birth abortion

Dawn beyond life's sunset clause: Linda Bowles looks at Mort Kondrake's love for ailing wife Milly

Border blowback: Linda Bowles details dangerous U.S. immigration policies

Rest in Peace, Linda. You will be sorely missed, but we cannot be so selfish as to deny you your peace from your pain.

[GOP_1900AD]

Incredibly sad and yet instructive to us all. Even Bible believing Christians can succumb to the dark forces of doubt and loss of ability to confront the future. It is particularly difficult in these times, with the vast majority of society having lost its Judeo-Christian underpinnings. The "system" is one of secular humanism, ahistorical "analysis," and rebellion against futurity. Anti depressants should be banned or vastly reduced in usage as they are an huge mechanism by which the forces of societal atomization undermine particularly children but even as we see here adults.

[newgeezer]

How sad. Her column for Thanksgiving, 2001 included this:

Give thanks. There is a light that overcomes this dread, dead-ended darkness. There is a Creator who will find those who seek Him and lead them to it.

My personal statement remains the same, year after year: If I could identify just two things for which to be thankful, I would choose first to be thankful for amnesty, that is, forgiveness for all those accumulations of sin and error which could otherwise weigh us down and steal away our freedom of spirit and enthusiasm for life. Second, I would give thanks for the promise that one day you and I will see His face.

I hope she knows our Savior as her own.

[OneVike]

Linda Bowles was a very good conservative, I find this very hard to take as fact. I find it especially disheartening that it took 15 days after her death to find out she died. I live in Chico Ca. about 20 from Paradise and she was a close friend of Bruce Sessions and used be on his radio show very often. God bless her family, she will be missed.

[cgk]

No Distinction Between Good, Evil?

As a tribute, I just posted one of my favorite Linda Bowles' articles that never made it to FR.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[lodwick]

What a loss.

RIP Linda.

[Xenalyte]

Bowles, 51, whose column appeared in the Chico Enterprise-Record, the Houston Post, Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, Arkansas Democ-rat-Gazette and WorldNetDaily.com, reportedly never recovered from the loss of her husband Warren. She also appeared on and was a frequent guest host for Liveline with Bruce Ses-sions show on KPAY.

Not for a very long time, they didn't. The Post has been dead here in Houston lo, these many years.