article_snippet.sent: Ms Cowan never married and worked and lived in Edinburgh Ms Cowan whole adult life, retiring from Ms Cowan job at George Watson's College in 1981.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Cowan was raised with Ms Cowan brother Martin in Kirkcudbrightshire, where Ms Cowan family had lived for generations and ran a grocer shop, before moving to the city where Ms Cowan lived in a modest semi-detached house which sold for £490,000 in 2012.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Cowan Ms Cowan never married and had no children.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Cowan grew up in Kirkcudbrightshire before moving to Edinburgh where Ms Cowan lived for the rest of Ms Cowan life, including in this semi-detached property (right) for 20 years until 2012 .
article_snippet.sent: Ms Cowan finally retired from George Watson's's in 1981.