Rita
Ernest
Collins
aka Herndon, Bowie
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Ernest Lee Collins
and Alma (De Lavallade) Collins
Sister of
Lois Ruth (Collins) Glaude, Betty (Collins) Griffin, Janet Faye Theresa Collins, Alma Collins and Ernest Patrick Collins
Wife of
[private husband (1920s - unknown)]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 71
in Los Angeles County, California, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 7 Feb 2021
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Biography
Rita Collins is a part of US Black heritage.
Rita was born in 1922. She is the daughter of Ernest Collins and Alma De Lavallade. [1]
She married Nathaniel Bowie in 1955.[2]
Sources
- ↑ "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGL4-9CHB : 9 December 2020), Rita Ernest Collins, 18 May 1922; citing Birth, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, California State Archives, Sacramento.
- ↑ "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8XQ-KBW : 10 December 2017), Nathaniel Bowie and Rita Herndon, 03 Sep 1955; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 1,343,449.
- ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VMM8-KYD : 11 January 2021), Rita Bowie, 29 Apr 1994; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
- ↑ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGBQ-NRM : 26 November 2014), Rita Bowie, 29 Apr 1994; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
See also:
- "California Birth Index, 1905-1995," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGHG-4QV : 27 November 2014), Rita E Collins, 18 May 1922; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento.
- "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9Z9-K8K : 6 January 2021), Rita Collins in household of Ernest L Collins, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 60-561, sheet 4A, line 24, family 78, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 414.
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