Doris Bowles Eastman

Doris Bowles Eastman, 87, passed away Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018.

Memorial Services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, January 26, 2019 at Central Baptist Church with Reverend Lloyd Grant officiating.  Visitation with the family present will be held one hour prior to the service at the church.  

Doris was born May 7, 1931, to Violet (Kern) and Charles Bowles in Jersey City, NJ. She graduated from John Adams High School in New York City in 1948.

After high school, she worked as a comptometer operator at American Cyanimid in the Rockefeller Center. That same year, she met George Eastman, a Navy hospital corpsman, in a fix-up by friends. They were married two years later in 1951. They lived in Waikiki for a year after marriage as George served in the Navy.

George and Doris had three children: Lawrence, Gregory  and Leslie Eastman.

After raising her children, Doris earned an associate’s degree at Tidewater Community College, in 1981. She studied art and spanish, graduating the same spring her daughter Leslie graduated from UVA.

Doris was a kind and generous heart, who welcomed everyone into her home as family. Her children fondly remember a childhood full of adopted animals, from kittens to ducks and snakes. She had a bed and an ear to offer to anyone who needed it.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Violet Bowles (nee Kern); stepfather James Campbell; father Charles Bowles; brother Ralph Bowles; sisters, Francis Springer (nee Bowles) and Prudence Trotter (nee Bowles).

She is survived by her husband, George Eastman; sons, Lawrence and Greg Eastman; daughter, Leslie Eastman; daughter-in-law Valerie Eastman; and four grandchildren who loved her dearly, Connor and Hannah Eastman and Caitlin and Erin Lukin.

Memorials may be given to the Alzheimer's Association in Doris's Memory.