Patricia Ann Gowan

TREZEVANT, Tenn. — Funeral services for Patricia Ann Gowan are at 1 p.m. on Friday, October 23, 2026, at First Baptist Church-Trezevant. The family will receive friends at the church from 11 a.m. until service time. Interment will follow at Trezevant Cemetery.

Mrs. Gowan, 91, died Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at NHC Healthcare Milan. She was born in Trezevant on April 13, 1935, to Guy Steele Yancey and Jessie Barlow Yancey. She graduated from Trezevant High School in 1953, where she met the love of her life, Johnny Fred Gowan. They were married on July 3, 1954, in Corinth, Miss. by Rev. Walter D. Hill. They made their home in Trezevant.

She attended Bethel College and Union University, where she studied piano and organ. She has been a member of Trezevant First Baptist Church since 1947. She was a bookkeeper for the National Guard, but she loved playing the piano. She played in several quartets and later became the church's pianist and organist.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Johnny Fred Gowan, and her son Mark Gowan.

She is survived by her daughter, Karen Pirtle (Jim) of Milan; daughter-in-law, Beverly Gowan of Cedar Grove; four grandchildren, Lorien Fleener (Trenton), Ian Gowan (Brittany), Ashley Pirtle, and Jon-Marc Gowan (Megan); and five great-grandchildren, Zella, Amaya, Payton, Denton, and Paislee.

Brummitt-McKenzie Funeral Home.