When Mary Lorene TOWRY was born on May 2, 1927, in Fayetteville, Tennessee, her father, Tillman, was 29, and her mother, Ollie, was 19. She was the third born child.
Lorene TOWRY Childress around 1931
Towry family around 1931
Front: Orville, Lorene, Evelyne
Back: Tillman, Ollie, Thomas
Lorene TOWRY Childress around 1935.
Towry/Bragg/Williams cousins taken around 1935.
Lorene in front of old Towry home.
Lorene TOWRY Childress and Evelyne TOWRY before 1946.
She married Leonard Odie CHILDRESS on August 4, 1946, in Madison, Alabama.
She died on July 5, 2009, in her hometown at the age of 82, and was buried in Lincoln, Tennessee.
Leonard and Lorene Childress' tombstone at Pleasant Grove Cemetery (Towry Cemetery) near old Towry home.
Peggy TOWRY Phillips, Orville TOWRY and Lorene TOWRY Childress
Lorene TOWRY Childress
Virgil, Thomas, Wade, Lorene, Cletus, Marie and Clyde Towry