Thomas Earl Bowsher died April 4, 2012, at his home in Lewisville, Texas, after an 18-month battle with lung cancer.

Tom was born June 20, 1950, in Lima, Ohio, and graduated from Derby High School. He worked as a truck driver in Lawrence and Kansas City and then as a terminal manager in Scott City, and Dallas-Fort Worth. He was married to Karla Kae Schulte Bowsher in Wichita on Nov. 12, 1988.

He leaves behind Karla; their daughters and spouses, Cameron and Andrea Behring Goff of Tulsa, Okla., and Lee and Nicole Behring Toribio of Lewisville; grandchildren, Lauren and Madison Goff, and Brandon Toribio; Karla’s mother, Lucille Schulte of Wichita; Karla’s sisters, Sue Morgan and Cindy and Victor King; mother, Evelyn Joyce Simmons Bowsher Guseman; sisters, Joyce Rochelle Worthing of Denver, Colo., Melodie Bowsher of San Francisco and Nancy Staltman of Plano, Texas; nieces and nephews in London, England, Sydney, Australia, San Francisco, and Seattle; and several great nieces and nephews.

Tom was born June 20, 1950, in Lima, Ohio, and graduated from Derby High School. He worked as a truck driver in Lawrence and Kansas City and then as a terminal manager in Scott City, and Dallas-Fort Worth. He was married to Karla Kae Schulte Bowsher in Wichita on Nov. 12, 1988.