Shirlee Bowden has been on the WGES staff since the school opened. She has previously taught at Grassland Elementary and in California. She has taught all of the elementary grades except for third grade. She has been teaching for 39  years and continues to love it! She has been married for 35 years. She is proud to claim “Mr. Cookie” at Publix as her husband. She has two children, Brynne who is twenty-eight and Zack who is twenty-four.