BELGRADE – Margaret Ann Bowzard Marden left us March 27, 2021 from her home on The Lake with her husband and children by her side.”Miss Ann”, was born Dec. 11, 1937 to Lee Bowzard and Mae Bowzard in North Charleston, S.C. where her father was employed in the Charleston Naval Shipyard. At the end of WW Il, the family moved to Holly Hill, S.C for Lee to become a dairy farmer and Mae to become an inspector in a sewing factory providing inventory for J. C. Penney. After graduating from Holly Hill High School, Ann entered the Orangeburg County Regional Hospital School of Nursing acquiring her Registered Nurse diploma in 1958. Invited by Ann’s roommate’s mother, a German National, and her stepfather, a U.S. Army Major, to come to Germany and work as nurses for the Department of the Army, the girls moved to Wurzburg. During the few months to find clinical nursing openings, they organized and managed the first Army dependent Wurzburg Day Care on the military base. They then became employed at the US Army”s 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. During her service at the 97th, she had the pleasure of caring for Elvis Pressley, a victim of tonsillitis. At the Hospital Officer’s Club, Ann met Lt. Don Marden where they “Carolina shagged” the evenings away. She married Don in December of 1961 during his first year in Boston University School of Law. While in Boston, Ann continued her career as an operating room and ICU nurse at the US Public Health Service, Brighton Marine Hospital.They moved to Waterville upon Don’s graduation from Law School where she spent the next nine years caring for the family of four sons. In June 1976 she acquired her BS degree, (summa cum laude) in Professional Arts from Thomas College. Ann was a State Nursing Supervisor, Sales Representative and Nurse Examiner for Hooper Holmes/Portamedic during 1982-87. She was an agent for Dennis and Beedy Real Estate in 1987-89. In 1990 she was appointed Director of the Governor’s Office of Volunteer Services by Governor McKernan. In 1993 she became Director of the Edmund N. Ervin Pediatric Clinic of the Thayer Hospital located at the former Seton Hospital, a position from which she retired in 2003.Along the way she, along with a group of friends, formed an Antique Club, a group which continues to meet, subject to the Pandemic, on a regular basis. Ann was active in Republican Party activities working to support her husband’s successful campaigns for Mayor of Waterville and then Kennebec County Attorney. She organized the first Governor’s Inauguration Ball for Governor McKernan. While serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the Waterville Area Boy’s/Girl’s Club, she established a Thrift Shop to increase revenue. While her husband was a member of the Board of Directors of Good Will-Hinckley, she originated the Festival of Trees as a Christmas celebration. For many years Ann was a Docent at the Colby College Museum of Art.Her book “PERSONAL RECORDS: The New York Times Book of Lifetime History” was published in 1979. In 1981, Down East published her Shopper’s Guide to Northern New England and in 1983 her Shopper’s Guide to Southern New England. She conducted extensive research on “coin silver” but was not published. Commencing in 2003, she fabricated and sold women’s jewelry under the name of Classic Jewelry by Ann Marden., primarily using imported and domestic beads.Through it all, she was a true “southern lady”!Ann was predeceased by her parents and brother, John Bowzard, of Holly Hill, S.C. She is survived by her husband of Belgrade, sister Carolyn of Vance, S.C., sister-in-law, Libby, and sons Lee of Chelmsford, Mass., Don, Jr. of Marblehead, Mass., David of McLean, Va. and Ken of Arlington, Mass.; daughters-in-law, Bonnie, Kristen, Mirjana and Laurie; and beloved grandchildren, Sean, Josh, Hannah, Jamie, Lindsey, Courtney, Milica, Mateja and Bailey.Private family graveside services will be held when appropriate, memorial activities at the Pleasant Street Methodist Church at a later date.An online guestbook may be signed, and memories shared at www.familyfirstfuneralhomes.com

Arrangements are by Wheeler Funeral Home & Cremation Care, 26 Church St., Oakland.

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