The Bowens started a fund raising program selling "Big Ben" awareness bracelets for Valentine's Day.

As a result, St. Jude launched a WV field office that organizes all state fundraising for the hospital.

In 2008 the Bowen family organized a second St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway raffle in Hurricane, WVA and raised over $1,000,000.

Funeral Services were held on Tuesday, March 1, 2005, at River Cities Community Church in Huntington, West Virginia.

Ben's family moved to the Memphis, Tennessee area, and Tom Bowen first went to work for St. Jude Children's Hospital raising funds to cure pediatric cancer,[10] later working on creating the Childhood Cancer Network as Ben Bowen's legacy.