Helen Louise Bower

Brief Life History of Helen Louise

When Helen Louise Bower was born on 21 August 1912, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, Burnett Hayden Bower, was 44 and her mother, Rachel Elizabeth Vincent, was 29. She married Marion Franklin Brandon on 12 May 1937, in Utah, Utah, United States. She lived in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920. She died on 8 August 1988, in Burbank, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 75.

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Family Time Line

Marion Franklin Brandon
1909–1989
Helen Louise Bower
1912–1988
Marriage: 12 May 1937

Sources (11)

  • Helen Bower Brandon in household of Marion F Brandon, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
  • Bower, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
  • Helen Louise Bower, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

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World Events (8)

1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment

The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

1915 · Dinosaur National Monument

Dinosaur National Monument is a park that contains over 800 paleontological sites and fossils. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915.

1932

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

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English bour, bor(e), bur(e) (Old English būr) ‘cottage, chamber, bower’, denoting either a ‘cottager’ or ‘chamber-servant’, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a small cottage, or a habitational name from any of various minor places called from this word in Somerset, Sussex, Essex, and Peeblesshire. Compare Bowerman and Bowring .

English: variant of Bowyer , for a maker or seller of bows or an archer, from Middle English bowyere, an agent derivative of Old English boga ‘bow’.

Americanized form of German Bauer ‘peasant’ or ‘neighbor, fellow citizen’, or of its Dutch cognate Bouwer .

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

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