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Owen Bowen III — better known as O.B. — loved Southern Miss with all his heart.
And it loved him just the same.
Never more apparent was the latter than Tuesday when services for Bowen, who died at 65 early Sunday following a bout with cancer, were held at Richton United Methodist Church. Hundreds of current and former Golden Eagles made their way to the small town in Perry County to pay their final respects to a man who gave more than four decades of his life to the school’s athletic department.