Mrs. Hester Hunt Bowman, age 81, of Old Highway 109 died Wednesday, August 29 at Hinkle Hospice House in Lexington. A graveside service for Mrs. Bowman will be 4:00 pm Thursday, August 30 at Clarksbury United Methodist Church Cemetery. Mrs. Bowman was born July 3, 1931 in Faraday, West Virginia to William Crockett Hunt and Millie Anderson Hunt. She had worked in the furniture industry. She was preceded in death by one son Billy Ray Bowman on May 1, 2003 and one brother Don Hunt on August 17, 2012. She is survived by her husband Howard Carl Bowman of the home and one brother Ray Hunt of Martinsville, Virginia.