Emma “Robina” Lewis Bowman Hall, 79, of Elizabethton, Tenn., passed away Friday, January 31, 2020, at her residence. She was born in Avery County, N.C., and was the daughter of the late Roy Butler Lewis and Sylvia Novella Cook Lewis. Robina went to Edward’s Beauty School and opened her first shop in 1990. She was the owner of Robina’s Styling Salon for 28 years. She was a member of Willow Springs Baptist Church and she loved to travel.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Kenneth Ray Bowman, in 1984, and her second husband, Robert Douglas Hall, in 2004; a grandson, C.J. Jones; and a brother, Richard Deward Lewis.
Those left to cherish her memory include six children, Kendra Canter and husband Gary, Elizabethton, Anita Nancy and husband Darrell, Bluff City, Sherry Bowman, Johnson City, Victor Bowman and wife Wanda, Jonesborough, Jonathan Bowman, Elizabethton, and Regina Livingston and husband Jeff, Elizabethton. Ten grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren also survive.
A service to honor the life of Emma Robina Lewis Bowman Hall will be conducted at 6 p.m. Tuesday, February 4, in the Chapel of Peace of Tetrick Funeral Home, Elizabethton, with Dr. Kenneth Jordan officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, prior to the funeral service. The graveside service and interment will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, February 5, at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be selected from family and friends. Honorary pallbearers will be her life-long friend since childhood, Helen Huffine, and her business partner, Danetta Oliver. Everyone is asked to meet at the cemetery at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday for the graveside service. Online condolences may be shared with the family on our website, www.tetrickfuneralhome.com.
Mrs. Hall and her family are in the care of Tetrick Funeral Home, Elizabethton. Office: (423) 542-2232. Service Information Line: (423) 543-4917.