Julia Bowe Spins a Bedtime Tale for Her Grandchildren
Magic World of Yesterday Article from Chicago's American In 1960, shortly after the publication of her family history in The Generations, Chicago's American, a Hearst newspaper of the day, reports on Julia Bowe reading from her work to [...]
2021 The Skura Family
Editor's Note:Â In the summer of 1976, I was visiting my mother Mary Gwinn Bowe at her apartment when Ova Parish dropped by.Â
1981 Julie Anne Bowe Thompson (1931-1981)
Julie Anne Bowe Thompson was the daughter of Augustine Joseph Bowe and Julia Leonie Lecour Bowe. She was born in 1931, three years after her only sibling John Edward Bowe was born. As a young child she often navigated her Chicago block with John in a stroller he had recently outgrown.
1988 A Day at the Beach
 Kathie, John, Rob and Charlie Bowe hosted a June 1988 Day at the Beach for the Caseys, Hanleys, Heffrons, Lynches, Thompsons and other Bowes. From the looks of it, it was a great family get-together. The "Cumpy" beach [...]
The Generations
Editor's Note: In 1959 my aunt Julia Lecour Bowe published The Generations, a scholarly history of her French Pallissard ancestors. She recorded their French past and the American future they made for themselves in the 1850s when some of [...]
Julie Anne Bowe and Willard Owen Thompson, Jr. Tree
Editor's Note: Julie Anne Bowe was born on Tuesday, May 12, 1931, in Chicago, She was the daughter of Augustine Joseph Bowe and Julia Leonie Lecour. At the age of 20, Julie Anne married Willard Owen Thompson [...]
