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/* Death and legacy */
[[Odie Arambula]], a longtime Cowl Center board member and editor of the ''Laredo Morning Times,'' recalled the difficult tasks of getting the center on its feet financially. Arambula said that Cowl once told him that she did not want him ever "to abandon or quit this board, and I never did."<ref name=truechampiongone/> Jack Cowl did much of the fundraising for the center from the [[golf]] course.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> Among large donors to the facility were the late philanthropists Guadalupe Martinez, a Laredo businessman and rancher, and his wife, Lilia Martinez.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16636633&BRD=2290&PAG=461&dept_id=569392&rfi=6|publisher=''Laredo Morning Times''|title=Local benefactor dies at 91|accessdate=March 20, 2008; no longer on-line}}</ref>
At a memorial service for Cowl held on April 3, 2008, at the Laredo [[synagogue]], Congregation Agudas Achim, Arambula continued: "Very few people listen to the elderly, the poor, the impoverished, those in need and little children because they don't protest, they don't picket and they don't march. ... We're entrusted to do it for them to help restore their lives physically and emotionally."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19453560&BRD=2290&PAG=461&dept_id=569392&rfi=6|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|title=Cowl left her heart in Laredo|accessdate=April 4, 2008; no longer on-line}}</ref>
[[Joaquin Cigarroa|Joaquin Gonzalez Cigarroa, Jr.]], her friend and personal physician and a prominent Laredo civic leader, said that she introduced another "facet of medicine and therapy to a community that didn't have it. Her employees and patients loved her. She was persistent and plugged away and succeeded in getting funds to operate the center. . . . She was a remarkable woman and had very deep feelings toward people. The best quality she had was her love for human beings."<ref name=truechampiongone/>
