James Henry Jim Rowe, 77, husband of Beverly (Rosberg) Rowe of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and 331 Hillandale Avenue, Harrisonburg, went to his heavenly home on Tuesday, December 29, 2015, at Sentara RMH in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Jim was a member of the Harrisonburg Rotary Club, the Rockingham Union Lodge No. 27, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 632 of Harrisonburg, the Harrisonburg Moose Lodge, and the U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. He was a member of Belin Memorial United Methodist Church in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.
Masonic Rites service will be held at 5:00 p.m. Friday, January 1, 2016 by the Rockingham Union Lodge 27, after which the family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Coffman Funeral Home and Crematory and other times his residence in Harrisonburg.
A Memorial service will be conducted at 4:00 p.m., Saturday, January 2, 2016 in Coffman Funeral Home Chapel by Pastor Jim Harris and Pastor Bill Davis.
Burial will be private in Oaklawn Memory Gardens in Staunton, Virginia.
Active pallbearers will be Eddie Eutsler, Richard Presgrave, Lee Branner, Bill Hamblin, Ron Zaremba, Tom Moyers and Don Robinson.
Honorary pallbearers will be former employees of Central Security Bureau and Columbia Gas of Virginia.
It is suggested that memorials contributions may be made to Belin Memorial United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 528, Murrells Inlet, SC 29576 or to the Grand Strand Humane Society, 3241 Mr. Joe White Avenue, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577.
Special thanks to the Palliative Care Team and the 4th Floor doctors and nurses at Sentara RMH Hospital for their compassionate care of Jim during his illness.