George Stephen Bawden

BAWDEN, ANGEL, HOLSTROM, SEIBEL, LOEHTER

Posted By: Carol Bawden (email)
Date: 4/3/2007 at 13:39:52

GEORGE STEPHEN BAWDEN, son of Henry Lightbourne and Bella Angel Bawden, b 27 July 1880 in Davenport, Scott County, IA. Became medical doctor and practiced with father. He married 8 May 1907 Judith M. Holstrom, nurse from Chicago working at St. Luke’s Hospital now Genesis East Hospital. She divorced George 29 August 1907 – George had deserted her on 27 July. On 31 October 1908 George married Anna Elizabeth Seibel, b 5 May 1884, dtr of John Henry and Charlotte Loehter Seibel of Pleasant Valley, Scott County, IA. George served in the Army during WWI and returned to Davenport to resume his practice until 1920 when he and family left. They lived many years in Jasper, Wyoming.
He died 19 October 1959 in Springfield, Lane County, OR on where he and the family lived at 404 N. 19th St They were members of Hope Lutheran Church and George was a member of Springfield American Legion. Burial for the 3 of them in Springfield’s Mt. Vernon Cemetery. (obit info).
a. Lee George Bawden b 9 December 1909 in Davenport, 541-18-3951 issued in Oregon, d 26 February 1971
b. Henry Stephen Bawden b 3 May 1912 in Davenport, 540-14-6317 issued in Oregon, d 26 July 1984, lived in Springfield with his parents at the time of his father’s death.