Cecil Ray Bowles

Cecil Ray Bowles was an American former chief master sergeant from Chickasha, Oklahoma. He registered to be apart of the United States Air Force in 1955 while living in Texas.

Life
Cecil Ray Bowles was born on February 26, 1935 in Chickasha, Oklahoma to Cecil Byron Bowles and Minnie Thelma Williams, possibly as Philip Martin, Jr. He was adopted in 1935 by Napoleon Lafayette Bowles and Mildred Eunice Greer. On April 1, 1940, he moved to Magnum, Oklahoma.

In 1951, he would graduate from the Chickasha High School in Chickasha. Two years later at the age of 18, he would marry Nell Ruth Massey in Alex, Oklahoma. They would have their first child together on July 12, 1954, Deborah Kay Bowles, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Somewhere in 1955, while living in Texas, he would register to be apart of the United States Air Force. In 1956, he would move back to Chickasha. Two years later in 1958, he would move to Mississippi, and spend the rest of his life there.

On October 25, 1959, his first and only son was born, David Ray Bowles. In 1960, he would move to Gulfport, Mississippi. On July 27, 1963, he would have his third and last child, Karen Renne Bowles. In 1988, he would move to Biloxi, Mississippi, and live the rest of his life in the same city.