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Object Name
Photograph
Object ID
2013.014.004
Title
Retiring Flower Queen Betty Bowden with New Queen Elsie Fuller.
Date
1940.
Description
Photograph of retiring Flower Queen Betty Bowden (third from left) with new queen Elsie Fuller, Jean Sendall, and Marion Yardley. Murray Brandow is in the front centre.
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Brandow, Murray
Walker, Mabel Priscilla (Betty) (nee Bowden)
Mabel Priscilla "Betty" Bowden (married name Walker) was born in Langley in 1918. She was one of the six children of Mabel Priscilla and Gary (Garfield Walter) Bowden. She was the first Flower Queen, crowned in July 1939. She was crowned by Phyllis Izod of Chilliwack, who was Cherry Queen there, as there was no Queen in Langley yet to crown Betty. Betty met her husband Ewart Walker at the Flower Queen dance. He was teaching at Milner Elementary. They were engaged in October 1940 and married in Calgary on November 5, 1940. They had two children. Ewart went away to serve in the Second World War, so Betty moved home to Langley. Ewart returned in 1944.
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