This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chesser, Clemons, Ballowe Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gYI.2ACEB/242 Message Board Post: Hello. I am 2 months new to researching my family line since the death of my grandmother Iva Mildred (Chesser) Ballowe. I am looking for further info pertaining to her family. Walter (R.?) Chesser born I believe in Garland County, AR. Oct 3, 1894, died in 1942. Had at least 2 other sons. Worthen Chesser and Walter Chesser, with Lillie E. Clemons and later they divorced. Lillie later had another child with another spouse. Here is part of the obituary as found in the Hot Springs, AR, Sentinel Record, Saturday June 7, 2003. Funeral Home was Caruth-Hale. If anyone knows this family line I would love to find out more. Thank you Bryan Ballowe -------------------- IVA M. Ballowe Iva MildrdBallowe, 82 of Hot Springs died Wednesday, June 4, 2003 at a local hospital. She was born Sept. 22 1920 in Praugue, Okla., to Walter and Lillie E. (Clemons) Chesser. She was a devoted and faithful member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. She was also a nurse and was retired from teh Hot Springs Rehabilitation Center in 1985. She is predeceased by her husband of 30 years, James F. Ballowe, and a son, Darryl "Dally" Ballowe. <snip> ........... The rest is surviving family and thanks to caregivers.