wrote in her journal. "But it did not stop me from giving love. Most of my patients are dead, but not in my heart. They will live forever. "
Mrs. Bowles treasured a scrapbook filled with more than 200 letters and poems from patients' families. But as she comforted their sorrows, her spirit often sagged with longing for the faces in the family photos hanging in her Henrico County home.
from Richmond Times-Dispatch: Hospital volunteer Maria Bowles dies
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