Helen Jane (Bowden) Clifford (1939 - 2014)

Born 8 Feb 1939 in Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Percy Delmere Clifford — married 11 Oct 1957 in Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, United States

Died 29 Jan 2014 at age 74 in Cape Rosier, Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, United States

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Descendant of James Chilton.

Descendant of Stephen Hopkins.

Descendant of Thomas Rogers.

Descendant of Edward Winslow.

Biography

Helen Jane was born in 1939. She was the daughter of Wallace Gray Bowden and Iva Muriel Orcutt. She passed away in 2014. Married Percy Delmere Clifford.

BROOKSVILLE – Helen Jane Bowden Clifford passed away on Jan. 29, 2014, in Blue Hill. She was born Feb. 8, 1939, in Brooksville, the daughter of Iva Orcutt Bowden and Wallace Bowden, always going by her middle name Jane. Jane graduated from Brooksville High and went on to marry Percy Delmere Clifford on Oct. 11, 1957. Together they raised five children. Jane loved going on picnics down to Powers Beach, watching her own children, then her grandchildren learn to swim and cheering them on, making sandcastles and skipping rocks was part of her summer daily life. She loved a good yard sale and flea market. Winter months she enjoyed watching the kids sledding and making snowmen. In the evenings she either painted or knitted while listening to the radio. Jane was predeceased by her husband, Percy Delmere Clifford; her parents, Iva and Wallace Bowden; as well as her siblings, Mabel Cousins, Jo Blake, and Richard Bowden, along with their spouses. Jane is survived by all of her children, Cindy and husband, Philip Friend, Joel Clifford and wife ,Tracy, Aaron Clifford, Daron “Sparky” Clifford and wife, Carrie, and Oakly Clifford; brother-in-law, Earl Clifford and wife, Marie; sister-in-law, Audrey Bowden; 12 grandchildren; one great-grandchild, and one great-grandchild on the way; several nieces and nephews; and special friends, Clara Gray, Mini Branson, Andrea Devereux, Katherine Clifford and Scott Keegstra, whom she thought of as another son.

• Fact: Residence (1935) , ,
• Fact: Residence (1940) Brooksville Town, Hancock, Maine, United States
• Fact: Obituary (02 Feb 2014) Maine, United States

From published public information, children were:

• i. Cindy Clifford Friend b. 27 apr 1960
  • "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCJY-JFZ : 27 November 2014), Philip O Friend and Cindy L Clifford, 18 Oct 1980; citing Marriage, Maine, United States, State Archives, Augusta.
  • City: Brooksville; State: Maine; Year(s): 1996-2002

Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S. Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:

• ii. Joel Percy Clifford b. 13 jul 1964
  • "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCVW-YR4 : 27 November 2014), Joel Percy Clifford and Tracy Lynn Aucoin, 11 May 1991; citing Marriage, Maine, United States, State Archives, Augusta.
  • "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2QG5-VXX : 11 April 2020), Joel P Clifford, 2000.

• iii. Aaron Delmere Clifford b. 10 jun 1969
  • "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KGCQ-92N : 16 November 2019), Aaron D Clifford, 2005-2009.

• iv. Daron Clifford b 15 apr 1972
  • "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KGC7-K8V : 16 November 2019), Darren A Clifford, 2005.

• v. Oakly F. Clifford b 7 dec 1973
  • "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJC2-G9L3 : 19 May 2020), Oakly F Clifford, 1999.

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 12 May 2020, 03:21), entry for Helen Jane Bowden(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LYWF-QH8); contributed by various users.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMMD-CC9 : 25 January 2020), Helen J Bowden in household of Wallace G Bowden, Brooksville Town, Hancock, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 5-11, sheet 8B, line 75, family 191, 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 1479.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1X-WR9S : 10 December 2019), H Jane Clifford, ; Burial, Cape Rosier, Hancock, Maine, United States of America, Evergreen Cemetery; citing record ID 141162386, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• https://bangordailynews.com/2014/02/02/obituaries/helen-jane-bowden-clifford/