When Lois Anita Stowell was born on 25 February 1927, in Cass, Illinois, United States, her father, Leslie Rockwell Stowell, was 41 and her mother, Margaret Virginia Flatt, was 35. She married Floyd S. Jurgens on 31 January 1954. She lived in Township of Newmansville, Cass, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Newmansville, Cass, Illinois, United States in 1950. She died on 25 September 2019, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Petersburg, Menard, Illinois, United States.
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English: habitational name from Stowell (Somerset), Stowell (Gloucestershire), East and West Stowell in Wilcot (Wiltshire), or Stawell (Somerset), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’. The surname was taken to the Isle of Man by 1511, from whence it migrated to Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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