Winifred Jones Bowcock

Winifred Jones Bowcock passed peacefully at the age of 99 on December 17, 2024. She was the oldest of four children born to E. Thomas Jones and Emily Smythe Jones in Kingston, Pennsylvania on November 21, 1925. Winnie was proud of her Welch heritage and being a first generation American.

Being the daughter of a coal miner kept the family in Pennsylvania where she graduated Kingston High School in 1943. Due to WW II, the family moved to Annapolis, Maryland where her dad was a shipbuilder, and she was employed by the Naval Academy Experiment Station. She worked as a bookkeeper for ten years and met her husband, Lt. Charles Stuart Bowcock, Jr. They married October 16, 1952, at the Naval Academy Chapel and raised four children traveling the world as a Navy military family. Ports of call included Key West, FL; New London, CT; Charlestown, SC; Annapolis, MD; Virginia Beach, VA; Vienna, VA; Fontainebleau and Paris, France. In 1975, Winnie began working at the National Geological Institute in Reston, VA for ten years to complete twenty years as a Federal Government employee. Winnie and Stuart retired to the Indian River Colony Club of Melbourne, Florida in 1989. Their thirty plus years there were active and social. Winnie was a founding member of the Cartbarn Theatre troupe, IRCC chorus, a weekly dominos group, water aerobics, square and line dancing, an officer in Navy Wives, Red Hat Society member, and worked weekly at Angels in the Attic, a church thrift store.

Winnie was predeceased by Stuart, her loving husband of sixty-one years; her parents, Tom and Emily Jones of Edgewater, Maryland; and brothers, Phillip Jones and James Jones, both of Maryland.

She is survived by her sister E. Ruth Jones of Edgewater, Maryland; and her children: Linda Weiss of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Laurie Follit of Sutton, Massachusetts, Lacey Richards of Stanardsville, Virginia, and Charles Stuart Bowcock, III of Edgewater, Maryland. Winnie leaves numerous loving grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Our beloved Winnie was known as a woman of many hats, her deep love of chocolate, and all things purple. Services for the celebration of a life well lived will be at the Naval Academy St. Andrew's Chapel on Monday January 13, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. with a reception to follow at the Officers Club. All are welcome.

In lieu of flowers, any donations in her memory are welcomed, especially to her fabulous caregivers at JHC Hospice of Worcester.