I already did the foreclosure story and now I am looking at the other owners, who did not face foreclosure, Frank and Earlene H. Fowler of 131 Bates Street NW.
I’m going to start with Earlene. She was born Agnes Earline Hailstork November 4, 1915 in Virginia. Her mother was an 18 year old housekeeper and her father unknown. In 1946 she married Frank Fowler. In the 1950 census she worked as a clerical worker for the V.A. and lived with her husband Frank, a laborer, and their 3 sons, all under the age of 3 on the 2100 block of 18th St NW.
There was another Black Frank Fowler in the area, and I don’t trust the family tree, so this is the end. I will say one of their sons, Larry, kept close.