When Thelma Bowen was born on 4 December 1916, in Unity, Cassia, Idaho, United States, her father, Daniel Bowen, was 29 and her mother, Ida Eliza Tueller, was 22. She married Lund Edward Christensen on 5 June 1940, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Heyburn, Minidoka, Idaho, United States for about 63 years. She died on 15 May 2013, in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Heyburn, Minidoka, Idaho, United States.
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U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
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Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen ), with fused patronymic marker (a)p, which is normally voiced before a vowel.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of Buadhachán’, a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’ (see Bohan ).
Irish: used to ‘translate’ Ó Cnáimhín ‘descendant of Cnáimhín’, a personal name meaning ‘little bone’ or ‘little body’, see Nevin 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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