Robin Marie Markland Bowers

Published 4:15 pm Monday, March 19, 2018

Robin Marie Markland Bowers, 61, of Elizabethton, passed away Thursday, March 15, 2018, at her residence.
A native of Carter County, she was a daughter of the late Jimmy Allen Markland and Loretta Taylor Morris and her step-father, Billy Jack Morris.
Robin had been an employee of Wal-Mart for a number of years before being employed by the Carter County School System as a custodian at Unaka High School and Hunter Elementary School. She was of the Free Will Baptist Faith.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Billy Markland.
Survivors include her children, Renee Gladson and Jonathan Bowers and wife Chastity, all of Elizabethton, and Michelle Dotson, Johnson City; eight grandchildren, Kaitlyn Simerly, Morgan Simerly, Megan Simerly, Zayne Buckles, Avery Dotson, Kendall Dotson, Nick Bowers and Allston Harrison; the father of her children, Harold “Mutt” Bowers; her brother, Laney Markland; her sisters, Thelma “Pebbles” Blake and Sherry Ann Lowe; and several special nieces and nephews.
Funeral services for Robin Marie Markland Bowers will be conducted at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Bill Greer officiating. The graveside service and interment will be at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 21, in the Wilson Cemetery. Pallbearers will be selected from family and friends. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 11 a.m. Wednesday to go to the cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at our website: www.memorialfcelizabethton.com
Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the Bowers family.