James Colquitt Bowen

James C. Bowen, Jr. (Jake) of Jacksonville, Florida departed this life Saturday March 7, 2015.
A Celebration of Life for Jake Bowen will be held at 3:00 p.m. , Monday March 9, at the Chapel at Flint River Preserve, 825 Power Dam Road, Warwick, Georgia, with Amy Bowen Carter officiating. The family will receive friends immediately after the service.
Mr. Bowen was born on November 17, 1944 in Hawkinsville, Georgia, to the late J.C. and Lois Braswell Bowen.
He graduated from Fitzgerald High School in 1962; graduated from Middle Georgia College, and received a Juris Doctor degree in 1975 from Atlanta School of Law. He served in the United States Navy in North Africa during the Vietnam War. Mr. Bowen was a salesman and property manager. He owned and operated several businesses in the landscape and nursery industry, and in the mortgage business: the most recent was the Mortgage Lion in Fitzgerald, Georgia and Jacksonville, Florida. In Fitzgerald, he served on the Downtown Development Authority and advisory board of Ben Hill Irwin Tech.
The Flint River Preserve, the first Certified Green Development in the state of Georgia, has been his passion in recent years. Developing the community on the banks of the Flint River, and preserving the farm land and wildlife habitat on the property was his main focus. Jake Bowen made contributions to the community by serving as President of the Flint River Fuller Center for Housing at Lake Blackshear, and the Friends of North Worth County Fire Department.
Mr. Bowen is survived by his wife Marilyn Odom Bowen; his children, Tiffany B. Marshall & her husband Adam, of Lakeland, Florida, and Tate Bowen & his wife Kelly Ewing Bowen of Diamond Head, Mississippi; grandchildren Jake and Abby Marshall, and Jace Bowen; step daughters Jessica O. Hammett and husband Matt, grandchildren Matthew and Toby Hammett, and Sydney O. Penland and her husband David, all of Jacksonville, Florida; sisters and "brothers" Gail B. Metz, Mitzi and Frank Lott, Amy and Wendell Carter; nephews Brad Metz, Blake Metz, Chase Lott, and Wen Carter; father-in-law and mother-in-law Ron and Carol Lewis; and many favorite cousins.
The family suggests that in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the Flint River Fuller Center for Housing, P.O. Box 239, Warwick, GA 31796.