Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Maryann Bowie Lynch, 76, passed away March 20, 2024, in Green Valley, Arizona after battling cancer for a second time. She was surrounded by loving family and friends.
Maryann was born in Chelan Washington February 1,1948, grew up on her family’s Lake Chelan First Creek orchard and graduated from Chelan High School in 1966. She acquired her grace and charm from her mother Elizabeth Wild Bowie, and her work ethic from her father Hillis Bowie. Both Elizabeth and Hillis’ family were early pioneers who settled in the Chelan area. After graduating high school, she moved to Seattle, WA and met and married her husband, Robert Allen Lynch, of 56 years. They moved to Skagit Valley, WA in 1970 where they restored houses, first in LaConner and then Conway. In 1989, they set off on a live aboard boating adventure to Southeast Alaska, primarily in the Ketchikan area. During this time, they also returned to Lake Chelan and ‘snow birded’ in Arizona before settling permanently in Green Valley, Arizona in 2014. In 2020 she bravely participated in the Banner Institutes research on a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.
Maryann had a wonderful sense of humor. She loved entertaining friends, creating beautiful gardens, restoring, and decorating old houses, motorcycling, boating, fishing, hiking and just being outdoors! She was an avid birder, naturalist, and homemaker. In her 20 years of cruising on boats with her husband Bob and their Wheaten Terriers in SE Alaska, she was a great fisher woman, catching salmon, halibut and pulled many a shrimp pot! Maryann was always a gracious hostess and wonderful mother and friend. She loved new adventures and experiences she was much loved and will be greatly missed!
She is survived by her husband Robert Allen Lynch, their two children, daughter Amy [Michael] Wilson, and son Patrick [Misha] Lynch and three grandchildren, her brother Doug [Kay] Bowie, and nieces Jill (Jim) Compton and Jade (Jim) Jaspers. She is preceded in death by her parents and grandson.
