MaryGrace Sellers followed in her father's footsteps to serve her country
Author: Bary Roy
Updated: 8:26 PM CST March 11, 2021
GATESVILLE, Texas — MaryGrace Sellers lights up whenever she talks about her Dad Freeman "Bud" Bowen.
"He’s still my hero and my father is 84. He was a 20-year career man. He’s my world, my world," Sellers said. "My first love and my good friend. We are still really really good friends."
Sellers followed in her Dad's footsteps and joined the United States Marines in 1976 as a civil engineer. Bowen served in the Navy as an electronics engineer in Vietnam.
She said her dad always gave her grief for joining the Marines and not the Navy, but said he was proud of her decision to join.