Woman Who Lost Sons In Bombing Has A Baby

OKLAHOMA CITY - After burying her sons, who were two of the youngest victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, Edye Smith Stowe may have finally found some peace.

Stowe delivered a 7-pound, 10-ounce baby boy yesterday. Hours later, she met with reporters as her husband, Paul, held their new child, Glenn Brennen Stowe.

"This is the easiest pregnancy I've ever had," she said, smiling.

Stowe wanted desperately to have more children after the deaths of 2-year-old Colton and 3-year-old Chase Smith in the April 19, 1995, blast. The bombing killed 168 people, 19 of them children.

She reconciled with her first husband, Tony Smith, and underwent a procedure to reverse a tubal ligation. But by September 1996, the stress of trying to conceive took its toll, and they again divorced.

She married Paul Stowe, a television engineer, in May 1997.

Glenn is named after Edye Stowe's late stepfather, Glenn Wilburn, who died last summer. Wilburn helped spearhead a petition drive to seat a grand jury in Oklahoma County to investigate possible conspiracies behind the bombing.

Chase and Colton were in the Oklahoma City federal building's day-care center when the 4,000-pound bomb exploded.

It's important that her new son know about the brothers he will never meet, Wilt said yesterday.

"When Glenn gets older, I want to save all that for him," she said. "I want him to know them just (as) if they were still alive."