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Personal data Mabel Julia Bowen Ratchford [RsCs] 

  • She was born on November 18, 1922 in Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina.
  • She died on March 3, 2015 in Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina, she was 92 years old.
  • She is buried in Westview Gardens, Bessemer City, Gaston County, North Carolina.
  • A child of Thomas Bowen
  • This information was last updated on August 26, 2023.

Household of Mabel Julia Bowen Ratchford [RsCs]

She is married to Howard Donnette Ratchford.

They got married on January 18, 1941, she was 18 years old.


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Mabel Julia Bowen Ratchford
BIRTH
18 Nov 1922
Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH
3 Mar 2015 (aged 92)
Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
BURIAL
Westview Gardens
Bessemer City, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
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Mabel Julia Bowen Ratchford, 92, died March 3, 2015 at CaroMont Regional Medical Center in Gastonia.

She was born in Gaffney SC, November 18, 1922, daughter of the late James Thomas Bowen Sr. and Rosabell Gregory Bowen.

She was preceded in death by her brother, James Thomas Bowen, Jr. and sister, Juanita B. Ballew.

She grew up in High Shoals and attended Dallas High School where she met the love of her life, Don Ratchford. Her sister, Billie, also met the love of her life there, Boyce Flowers. The sisters married their best friends in a double ceremony in York, South Carolina on January 18, 1941.

Mabel and Don spent the next 44 years together raising their four sons and seldom leaving each other's side. They moved from High Shoals to Bessemer City and then to McAdenville so they could raise their sons in the environment of the town where they both worked for Pharr Yarns.

Three of their sons played for Holbrook High School with the fourth playing at South Point HS. They were always in the stands cheering their sons on. Mabel loved color and you could always spot her in the stands in her vibrant outfits. They followed their sons, all playing college baseball, on many road trips.

Upon retirement from Pharr Yarns, they set out for California and Hawaii. Upon their return, Don was diagnosed with a virulent form of cancer and Mabel slept in a chair beside Don's bed for 144 nights before he came home in February 1986.

When Don died in 1986, everyone assumed Mabel would just fall apart and be unable to take care of herself. She had a driver's license but Don had always taken her anywhere she wanted to go. She had never written a check or pumped her own gas.

Mabel also faced the specter of cancer. She became a resounding cancer survivor who never doubted she would defeat that disease.

Mabel, undaunted, took up the challenge at the age of 63 of becoming a modern, independent woman. She cut her grass, learned to drive and pump gas, chopped her own firewood and was constantly on the go. She always had time for her children and grandchildren even as she was in perpetual motion.

She was a faithful attendee at her church, Holy Comforter Lutheran, in Belmont. Her faith was very strong and important to her.

Mabel went to her high school reunion and renewed an old friendship with a classmate, Ray Mauney, who had also lost his spouse to cancer. Ray and Mabel spent many memorable evenings together – going out to eat, watching Mabel's beloved Atlanta Braves, bowling, dancing into the night, playing Rummikub with countless friends or just sitting quietly in front of the fireplace. Sadly, Ray died in 2010. Once again, Mabel reached into that deep well of strength and moved on with her life.

Her legacy of toughness tempered with love; ending all phone conversations with "I love you"; defying all odds to overcome adversity and the smile that always touched her beautiful brown eyes epitomized the loving daughter, friend, sister, wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother and great grandmother we knew as Mom, Mabel, Nannie or Mrs. R. She and her dearly adored Don are now together…again…Forever.

Private family committal will be held at Westview Gardens Cemetery in Bessemer City prior to the service.

Published online: McLean Funeral Directors of Gastonia

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1922–1986

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1922-2015

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1922-1986

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Birthday November 18, 1922

  • The temperature on November 18, 1922 was between 4.0 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1922: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
    • February 6 » The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
    • March 20 » The USSLangley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
    • August 2 » A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than 50,000 people.
    • September 9 » The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
    • October 27 » A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
    • December 6 » One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.

Day of marriage January 18, 1941

  • The temperature on January 18, 1941 was between -10.2 °C and -1.4 °C and averaged -5.1 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
    • January 6 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
    • April 28 » The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
    • May 9 » World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
    • June 8 » World War II: The Allies commence the Syria-Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
    • June 23 » The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
    • August 22 » World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.

Day of death March 3, 2015

  • The temperature on March 3, 2015 was between 3.0 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
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