Geraldine Ceressar Brown Bowden

September 16, 1928 - March 20, 2017

Geraldine Ceressar Brown Bowden, was born on September 16, 1928 to the late Willie and Elsie Brown. She passed on March 20, 2017 peacefully. Geraldine was an Alumnae of BTW High School, classes of 1945 - 46. She then went on to graduate from Bennett College, a true Bennett Belle, where she received her Degree in Education. She moved to Pocomoke, Maryland where she taught as a school teacher. Thereafter, she moved to New York City where she got married and had three children. While in New York, she worked for the New York Department of Probation and retired in 1991. She returned home to Rocky Mount, North Carolina where she worked in the Volunteer Detective Unit of the Rocky Mount Police Department in 1994. She also volunteered for the Nash County Democratic Women's Organization and organized many bus trips to various places which were the rave for all who attended. Geraldine had four siblings, the late Wildonia Owens, J.T. Brown and William Brown. Her only surviving sister, Josephine Gray is here to carry on the legacy. Geraldine's Son, Rodney Bowden passed away October 5, 2015. She has left behind her two loving daughters, Renee Cosby and Roslyn Bowden. She will stay in the memories of her son’s wife, Lisa Bowden and his children Destiny Bowden and De Janae Stewart as well as Rodney’s daughter and her granddaughter, Melanie Renée Bowden. She also has several nieces and nephews, Dee Gray, Venus Gray who always called her Aunt G, Billy and April Brown who's mother, Wilamena Brown was married to William Brown. Her late nephew, Junie Brown and her stepchildren, Venita Lockhart, her husband Al and their two children, Alfred and Alison Lockhart. And her two stepsons, Michael and Ronald Bowden will also miss her dearly.