Gertrude Wortham Swain

  General Notes:

The 1940 Federal Census for Springfield, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania, District 23-167, page 3028B, dated April 10, 1940 records Frank (36 - NY) and Gertrude (30 - NC) Fowler with their daughter Sally (6 - PA) living at 416 Yale Avenue. They own their home valued at $3,000. Frank has completed 4 years of college and is employed as a Chief Clerk for the Railroad earning $3,300 working 52 weeks during the last year. Gertrude has completed 4 years of high school.
Next door is Frank's widowed mother, Matilda Fowler (70 - PA).

The SSDI records Gertrude Fowler with SSN: 178-30-6691. Her last Residence: Fort Ashby, Mineral, West Virginia, United States of America, Zip: 26719
Born: 26 Aug 1909 / Died: 21 Sep 2004
State (Year) SSN issued: Pennsylvania (1954-1956).



Mineral Daily News-Tribune of Keyser, WV - (Sep/25/2004) / Obituary for GERTRUDE FOWLER
Gertrude Wartham (Swain) Fowler, 95, of Ridgeley, formerly of Morton, Pa., died Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004, at the Dawnview Center in Fort Ashby.
Born Aug. 26, 1909, in Southport, N.C., she was the daughter of the late Richard Clyde and Sallie (Blackwell) Swain. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Frank Bowman Fowler in 1981; one brother; and four sisters.
Mrs. Fowler had been a reference clerk at the University of Pennsylvania Library for more than 20 years. She was a member of Kedron United Methodist Church, where she had belonged to the Methodist Women's Society; Philadelphia Chapter, D.A.R., and AARP.
Survivors include one son, Frank B. Fowler Jr. and wife, Connie, of Ridgeley; one daughter, Mrs. Sally F. Goodavage of Chloe, W.Va.; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
The funeral service will be conducted from the Kedron United Methodist Church, 16 S. Morton Ave., Morton, Pa., on Saturday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Joan Charles officiating. Interment will be in Glenwood Memorial Gardens, Broomall, Pa.

Gertrude married Frank Bowman Fowler Sr., son of Dr. Peter Van Benschoten Fowler and Matilda Donaghy, on 6 Sep 1931 in Smithville, Brunswick County, North Carolina. (Frank Bowman Fowler Sr. was born on 7 Apr 1903 in Center Moriches, Suffolk Co., New York and died in Nov 1981 in Morton, Delaware, Pennsylvania.)