Carolyn W. “CJ” Mowers, sister of Bangor Daily News publisher Richard J. Warren and chairman of the board for the newspaper’s parent company, Bangor Publishing Co., died Friday after a brief illness. She was 77 years old.
Mowers was born in Bangor on April 15, 1947, the daughter of Richard K. Warren and Joanne J. Van Namee. She graduated from Rogers Hall, a college prep school in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1965, and also attended the American School in Lugano, Switzerland. She later attended Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C.
The extended Warren family has owned the Bangor Daily News since Mowers’ great-grandfather, J. Norman Towle, purchased the newspaper in 1895, six years after its founding. Mowers’ father, Richard K. Warren, served as publisher of the Bangor Daily News and Bangor Publishing Co. for more than 30 years between 1955 and 1986.
Mowers joined the Bangor Publishing Co.’s board of directors in 2006. Her brother, Richard J. Warren, has served as publisher since 1984.
“CJ was the optimistic, can-do force on the board, always looking ahead and always interested in how people at the BDN were doing,” said Todd Benoit, president and chief operating officer at Bangor Daily News. “She cared deeply for the BDN and for this region. She will be deeply missed.”
She was the mother of Scott W. Farley, who lives in Portland, Maine, and has three sons, Brett, Benjamin and Bryan; and Jennifer E. Mowers of Cape Elizabeth, who has a daughter, Audrina.
She was predeceased by her longtime partner, Frederick C. Emery, who died in 2015.
