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Helen (Swartz) Mowrey

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Title

Helen (Swartz) Mowrey

Subject

Mowrey, Helen Marie Swartz (1927- )

Description

Portrait photograph of Helen M. (Swartz) Mowrey.

She was the daughter of Noah Franklin and Fanny Amelia (Gochenour) Swartz.

She married John Thomas Mowrey, Jr. in 1948. At that time, he was a salesman and Helen was a member of the Cadet Nurse Corps at Winchester Memorial Hospital.

The couple moved out west to California and are both buried in Arizona.

Emulsion damage is visible around the upper edges of the photograph.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "July 1949".

Contributor

Identified in 2012 by Phyllis Wright who was a friend of the subject and remembered that Helen (Swartz) Mowrey was a sister of Phyllis' Aunt Mary. S. (Swartz) Foltz.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Helen M. (Swartz) Mowrey appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 003529, 013055, and 026174.

Identifier

026174

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Helen (Swartz) Mowrey,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/55846.

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