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Husb: John Webster Bowman
Father: Lee Reed Bowman
Mother: Verna Esther Cox
Birth August 9, 1919  Cairo, Alexander, Illinois 
Death April 18, 1986  Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland 
Wife: Eleanor Noyes Hempstone
Father: Smith Hempstone
Mother:
Birth September 3, 1924  Shanghai, China 
Death March 24, 2006  Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland 
Family Events
Marriage  October 10, 1942  Washington, District of Columbia 
Children
John Webster Bowman 
   
Ellen Hempstone Bowman 
   
William Cox Bowman 
   
Sources and Notes:

New York Times, New York City, New York, New York, October 11, 1942

Miss Hempston Bride In Capital

She is Married to Lieut. John W. Bowman of Marines in St. Thomas Church

Reception Held In Home

Mrs. Carfield Swift and Miss Maryo Nichols Attendants - Lee Bowman Best Man

Washington, Oct. 10 - Miss Eleanor Noyes Hempstone, daughter of Captain Smith Hempstone, U.S.N. and Mrs. Hempstone, and a granddaughter of Theodore W. Noyes, was married here today to Lieutenant John Webster Bowman, U.S.M.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Reed Bowman of Sikeston, Mo. The ceremony was performed in St. Thomas Church by the rector, the Rev. Dr. Howard S. Wilkinson.

A reception took place at the home of Mr. Noyes.

Mrs. Garfield Swift of New York, sister of the bride, was the matron of honor. Miss Maryo Nichols of Cincinnati, who was the bride?s room-mate at Farmington, was her maid of honor. The other attendants were the Misses Myra Noyes, cousin of the bride, Mary Francis Rollow, Claire Snow and Zelah Millard, all of Washington; Betty Fort of Annapolis and Mary Morehead of Tucson, Ariz.

Lee Austin Bowman was best man for his brother.