Lynce Crawford Bowling was born in Fannin, Mississippi, on September 22, 1893, to parents Ras and Ann Adams Bowling.
At some point he moved to Council Bluffs as he lists that as his hometown on his WWI Draft Registration card in 1917.
Lynce C. Bowling graduated from high school and received a B.A. degree in Mississippi. He attended Iowa State College and earned his DVM in 1920. At Iowa State he enlisted in the military during World War I, serving as a Private in the Student Army Training Corp. He was honorably discharged on February 1, 1919.
He was employed at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (As reported in Iowa State Veterinarian, vol. 16, no. 2, 1953)
Bowling worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Animal Industry, where he was employed as a Federal meat inspector. He worked at the Carsten Meat Packing House in Tacoma, Washington, as a meat inspector from 1927-1947 and prior to that was in Chicago. He and his wife, Doris, then moved to Los Angeles. It was reported in the Iowa State Veterinarian (v.19, no.1) that Bowling had been with the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA.
Bowling died on February 26, 1956, and was buried in the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
Graduation Portrait of Lynce C. Bowling, 1920. Courtesy of Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
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