Mildred (Fountain) Fowler (1917 - 2009)

Born 3 Sep 1917 in Foley, Baldwin, Alabama, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Dwight Hastings Fowler Jr — married about 1 Mar 1941 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico

Died 21 Dec 2009 at age 92 in Cottage Grove, Lane, Oregon, United States

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Biography

Mildred Fountain, born 1917, was the daughter of Walter Paul Fountain & Edith Carol (Roach) Fountain.^[1] She married Dwight Hastings Fowler, Jr. on 1 Mar 1941 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. He was born 26 Nov 1918 in Raton, Colfax County, NM, the son of Dwight Hastings Fowler, Sr. and Laura Viola (Howard) Fowler. Mildred's husband of just fourteen months died in the Bataan Death March of World War II. She did extensive genealogy research on the Roach/Roche family history for many years prior to her death in 2009 at Cottage Grove OR.

Mildred F. Fowler of Cottage Grove died Dec. 21 of age-related causes. She was 92. No service is planned. She was born Sept. 3, 1917, in Foley, Ala. She married Dwight Hastings Fowler in 1941 in New Mexico. He died in 1942. She received an associate’s degree from Santa Ana Community College. She worked for Rockwell more than 30 years as a patent associate. Survivors include her adopted daughter, Kerri Campbell of Cottage Grove, and two grandchildren. Arrangements by Poole-Larsen Funeral Home in Eugene. The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, January 2, 2010

Sources

1. ↑ "Alabama, County Birth Registers, 1881-1930," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WDNJ-SF3Z : 12 December 2019), Mildred Fountain, 3 Sep 1917; citing Birth, Foley, Baldwin, Alabama, United States, multiple county Probate Judges, Alabama; FHL microfilm 005176193.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFW6-3HX : accessed 30 July 2015), Walter P Fountain, Anderson Ward 1, Madison, Indiana, United States; citing sheet 14B, family 348, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,448.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH1R-5N2 : accessed 30 July 2015), Mildred Fountain in household of W P Fountain, Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0052, sheet 8B, family 216, line 67, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1392; FHL microfilm 2,341,127.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMR3-8SL : accessed 30 July 2015), Mildred Fountain in household of Edith Fountain, Albuquerque, Election Precinct 17 University Heights, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1-21, sheet 15A, family 337, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 2438.
• a typewritten Family Tree I believe to have been prepared by Lucille (Siebe) Wetzel, appears to have used the handwritten Ahnenfolge from Germany for the earliest entries, then added the more current descendants
• own knowledge of Millie