Comments on: This is how I will remember Suzanne

By: Nick DeAngelis

Nick DeAngelis — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:37:13 +0000

Dear Jerry,

My Mom (Linda) shared the news with me. Please accept my sincere condolences for your loss. Although I never met your wife, your “Looking for Graceland” piece provided a poignant glimpse into the unique and caring individual she was. The picture you posted of Suzanne has a timeless, peaceful beauty. I’ll keep you both in my thoughts.

Nick

By: Barbara Higginbotham

Barbara Higginbotham — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:53:18 +0000

Dear Jerry,
Just wanted to take a minute to let you know I am so sorry for your lose, what a beautiful picture of Suzanne. She was so blessed to have you by her side for 47 years, may your find comfort in knowing that she is now painless and will continue to be your Angel. Wishing you only the best of memories this Christmas Season, as the ones we shared in New York last summer.

May God continue you to Bless you,
Your Cousin Barbara

By: Jerry Bowles

Jerry Bowles — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:29:26 +0000

For those of you who kindly inquired:

Make check payable to: St Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital

Memo it Dr E Eden Pulmonary Research (In Memory of Suzanne Bowles)

Mail to:

Dr Edward Eden
Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Room 3A-55
1000 10th Avenue
NY, NY 10019

By: Bev Lindemuth

Bev Lindemuth — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:35:08 +0000

Jerry,

I am so sorry for your loss. I remember the first time I met Suzanne.
We were visiting Grandma Bowles, and I thouth how beautiful she was.
She was loved by everyone she touched and she will be missed deeply.
Please keep in touch and hopefully we can have another family reunion like we did last summer. I love to hear the stories from the past. Stay strong and keep your memories close and you will find comfort in knowing that Suzanne will never have to struggles again.
The picture is a beautiful tribute to a beautiful woman.

Much love,
Your cousin Bev

By: Duane Grant

Duane Grant — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:21:51 +0000

Jerry,

Words can not express everything that I want to say and everything that I know that you feel and are going through. Suzanne’s picture here is so wonderful and beautiful, as she was. I am so grateful to have known her and to have been the recipient of her warm hearted spirit, kindness and generosity. It was immeasurable to say the least.

You have been so wonderful to her and to this process through her illness; you can only feel good about that. You were the ultimate partner as she was to you.

Please take good care Jerry. I can’t get over the community of souls that are here for you and that were / are touched by Suzanne and by you. It is literally awesome.

By: Jenine Culligan

Jenine Culligan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:02:17 +0000

Jerry – A beautiful photo of Suzanne that says it all. I saw the notice of Suzanne’s death in Huntington’s paper, and it made me very sad. I only met her one time in your apartment back in 2006 when you were generously donating artworks to the Huntington Museum of Art. However I have enjoyed your annual cards ever since, and always think of you both. You and Suzanne left a legacy of beautiful art to HMA. Please know that all the work has been on view and will be here in perpetuity for all to enjoy. I hope you will always remember the beautiful moments… You are in my thoughts…

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:09:42 +0000

I am, perhaps, one of the few writing here who knew Suzanne before Jerry did. We met on a C&O train en route to East Lansing Michigan to check out the new Honors College at Michigan State University, for which we had both been recruited. When the train stopped in Huntington this striking woman asked if the seat beside me was empty. I said, yes, and, at least on my part, a crush began. As things have turned out, Suzanne decided to go to the University of West Virginia instead of MSU. There she met Jerry. I went to MSU and then to Cornell for graduate school where I met the love of my life. There’s a long back story I won’t run on with here. But years later, Suzanne reached out to me. She called my mother in Virginia and got my phone number in Japan, where Ruth and I have lived since 1980. Suzanne and Jerry’s friend Neil Martin sponsored Ruth’s and my associate membership in the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, and in 1992, when I flew to the States to pick up our daughter Kate from the Maine Teen Camp, we drove down to New York for a weekend at the Plaza. Suzanne and Jerry took us out to dinner and to see Miss Saigon, which may have had something to do with Kate’s going to Annapolis and becoming a Navy helicopter pilot. Every year we’ve enjoyed the Christmas cards with the pictures of Harold or earlier (what were their names?) cats. Now I look at that picture Jerry has posted and think of how much this distant but oddly close relationship has meant to me.

Jerry, wow. We men who find these amazing women are the luckiest guys in the world.

By: Jerry Bowles

Jerry Bowles — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:39:06 +0000

My friends, I am touched and overwhelmed by the generous outpouring of condolences. It is proof, I think, of something Steve Smith said in his NY TImes review of our concert at Joe’s Pub a few weeks and that is that Sequenza21 is not just a virtual community; it is also a real community. Thank you all for your kindness.

By: Griffith Everson

Griffith Everson — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:27:49 +0000

So sorry to hear the news of her passing, she was a wonderful person, as you are.
If there’s anything at all I can do, please don’t hesitate to call.
Stay strong.

By: Mary Condon

Mary Condon — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:13:14 +0000

My condolences, Jerry. She was blessed to have had you by her side. The picture is a lovely tribute. It has a painterly quality which seems fitting to her nature.