Rollin Lee Bowers

Brief Life History of Rollin Lee

When Rollin Lee Bowers was born on 18 October 1915, in Arnold, Custer, Nebraska, United States, his father, Charles Alfred Roscoe Bowers, was 32 and his mother, Tressie Lora McMurry, was 28. He married Veva Virginia Strasburg on 15 March 1946. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Cliff Township, Custer, Nebraska, United States in 1930. He died on 18 January 1977, in Arnold, Custer, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Arnold Cemetery, Arnold, Custer, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Rollin Lee Bowers
1915–1977
Veva Virginia Strasburg
1924–1968
Marriage: 15 March 1946
Lois Marie Bowers
1953–1954

Sources (11)

  • Rollin B Bowers in household of Chas A Bowers, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Rollin Lee Bowers, "Wyoming, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
  • ROLLIN LEE BOWERS, "BillionGraves Index"

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World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1920

Women got to vote first time in the state of Wyoming.

1932

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Bower , with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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