Laura was the daughter of Emmett Bruce Hodgden and Martha Ellen (Chambers) Hodgden
After Laura's mother died, her father remarried to his widowed sister-in-law, Hannah Catharine(Chambers) Holloway-Hodgden . Laura always referred to her step-mother as "Aunt Han".
She married Daniel E. Bower, Sr. March 19, 1903, Chanute, Kansas.
She was the mother of Golda May Bower , Arletta Martha (Bower) Hanson , Daniel Everett Bower, Jr. , Nellie Catharine (Bower) Brower , Emmett Wesley Bower , Woodrow "Fred" Bower, Ellen Eliese (Bower) Williams-Huffman-Knock, and Hugh Clifford Bower
She was a sister to Ernest Alvadore Hodgden , Addie Arletta (Hodgden) Biggs , Thomas Bair Hodgden (died 1933 in Tulsa, OK), and Ronald Emmett (died at 9 days of age in 1889 in Galesburg, KS), Ora Ralph Hodgden , and Frederick Orville Hodgden (died 1962 in Irving, TX.... And she was a step-sister to Florence Catherine (Holloway) Comer and Ada Martha (Holloway) Taylor.
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Laura was the daughter of Emmett Bruce Hodgden and Martha Ellen (Chambers) Hodgden
After Laura's mother died, her father remarried to his widowed sister-in-law, Hannah Catharine(Chambers) Holloway-Hodgden . Laura always referred to her step-mother as "Aunt Han".
She married Daniel E. Bower, Sr. March 19, 1903, Chanute, Kansas.
She was the mother of Golda May Bower , Arletta Martha (Bower) Hanson , Daniel Everett Bower, Jr. , Nellie Catharine (Bower) Brower , Emmett Wesley Bower , Woodrow "Fred" Bower, Ellen Eliese (Bower) Williams-Huffman-Knock, and Hugh Clifford Bower
She was a sister to Ernest Alvadore Hodgden , Addie Arletta (Hodgden) Biggs , Thomas Bair Hodgden (died 1933 in Tulsa, OK), and Ronald Emmett (died at 9 days of age in 1889 in Galesburg, KS), Ora Ralph Hodgden , and Frederick Orville Hodgden (died 1962 in Irving, TX.... And she was a step-sister to Florence Catherine (Holloway) Comer and Ada Martha (Holloway) Taylor.
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