Mary Bowen Polk, a longtime summer resident of Harthaven in Oak Bluffs, died March 25 in Delray Beach, Fla. She was 87.

She was born Oct. 9, 1920 in Pawtucket, R.I., to Marguerite Searles Bowen and Edward Collyer Bowen. Mary graduated from the Mary A. Burnham School in Northampton in 1939 and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, R.I., in 1943.

She married Alvar W. Polk Jr. in 1961. They spent their time between Needham, Oak Bluffs and Boynton Beach, Fla. She was a member of the Edgartown Golf Club and the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club. She loved to travel, play golf, garden and collect sea glass on the beach.

Survivors include her husband, Alvar (Jim) Polk Jr. of Delray Beach, Fla.; her niece, Meredith McLaughlin of Keswick, Va.; her nephew, Edward Bowen McLaughlin of Vero Beach, Fla.; her stepchildren, Judith Anne Ryan of Manhattan Beach, Calif., Diane Polk Morgan of Oak Bluffs and David Edgar Polk of West Hartford, Conn.; one great-nephew, two great-nieces, six great-great nieces and nephews, nine step-grandsons and six great-step-grandchildren.