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Submitted: 9/28/11 • Approved: 10/3/11 • Last Updated: 8/13/15 • R133403-G133401-S3
Roy 1923 - 1957
Geraldine 1921 - 20??
Roy Bovill was born in Pleasant Township in 1923 to John and Elizabeth Bovill. He attended Silver Lake Rural School and Beresford High School. In 1942 he joined the Navy Air Corps. In 1945 Roy married Geraldine Rommereim and they farmed his parents' farm north of Beresford. Geraldine at¬tended Pleasant Valley Rural School, Beresford High School, and Northern State Teachers College in Aberdeen, and she graduated from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. She taught school for 24 years. Her first teaching job was at rural Pleasant Valley where she had completed her grade school education. Following this, she taught in the elementary school systems in the area towns. They have a son, Gary, and a daughter, Kathleen. (Source: The History of Lincoln Co, SD 1985, page 284)
Contributed on 9/28/11 by revilo
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