Rowena Virginia Rockwell and William Biddle Langworthy

ROWENA VIRGINIA ROCKWELL, daughter of MILDRED MORSE and HARVARD SELDON ROCKWELL, was born December 14, 1922 in Hennepin County, Minnesota,⁷⁵ and died March 23, 2008.⁴⁵⁶ She is buried in Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne, Barnstable, Massachusetts.⁴⁵⁶

She married WILLIAM BIDDLE LANGWORTHY on February 1, 1947 in Woman's Club, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota.⁵³⁴⁴ He was born December 14, 1919 in Leavenworth County, Kansas,⁴⁵⁶ and died August 29, 2005 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts.⁴⁵⁶ He is buried in Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne, Barnstable, Massachusetts.⁴⁵⁶

Minneapolis Star and Tribune, January 30, 1947⁵³⁴⁴

Rowena Rockwell to Be Married Saturday

The marriage of Rowena Rockwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvard S. Rockwell, and William Biddle Langworthy, son of Mrs. Dorothy L. Gates of Leavenworth, Kan., will take place on Saturday at the Woman's club.

The ceremony in the library for the immediate families will be followed by a reception in the lounge at 8:30 p.m.

Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell will give the bridal dinner Friday at the Calhoun Beach club for their daughter and Mr. Langworthy. Mrs. Gates will be here for the wedding. Mr. Langworthy, and his best man, J. Henry Richmond of New York city, will arrive from New York where Mr. Langworthy is taking the law course at Columbia University.

Minneapolis Daily Times, February 4, 1947⁹³⁷⁹

MAKING THEIR HOME IN NEW YORK CITY, WHERE the bridegroom is attending Columbia university law school, will be Mr. and Mrs. William Biddle Langworthy (Rowena Virginia Rockwell) whose marriage took place Saturday night in the memorial library at the Woman's club, with the reception following in the lounge. . . .Dr. Carroll A. Wise of Hennepin Av. Methodist church read the service. . . .Rowena's 1870 period wedding gown was one belonging to her great aunt, Mrs. George H. Warren, and she wore an heirloom rosepoint lace veil. Her sister, Jean, was her sister's maid of honor, wearing a champagne colored taffeta gown. Henry Richmond, New York city, was best man. The bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Dorothy L. Gates of Leavenworth, Kan., was here for the wedding. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvard S. Rockwell.

Houston Chronicle, September 9, 2005¹⁶⁸

William Biddle "Bill" Langworthy, former mayor of Angleton and father of Houston Chronicle Outlook Page editor David Langworthy, died Aug. 29 in Framingham, Mass. He was 85.

Bill Langworthy was mayor of Angleton from 1957-59 and was active in building the Republican Party in Brazoria County.

Born Dec. 14, 1919, in Leavenworth, Kan., he graduated in 1941 from the University of Kansas. During World War II, he served as an officer in the Army in the Pacific.

After the war, he received a law degree from Columbia University.

Langworthy then became a briefing attorney for the Texas Supreme Court in Austin. He moved to Angleton in 1949 and practiced law with the late state Sen. Jimmy Phillips Sr.

An Eagle Scout, Langworthy served on the Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He also received Scouting's Silver Beaver Award for distinguished service.

In addition to his son, Langworthy is survived by his wife, Rowena Rockwell Langworthy, of Centerville, Mass.; another son, Timothy Langworthy, of St. Louis; and two daughters, Barbara Langworthy, of Ashland, Mass., and Libby Langworthy, of Alexandria, Va.

The time and place of a memorial service in Massachusetts will be announced.

Swampscott Reporter, April 3, 2008¹⁶⁸

Rowena R. Langworthy

Swampscott Reporter, The (MA) - Thursday, April 3, 2008

Rowena R. Langworthy of Centerville, formerly of Marblehead, died on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008.

She was born in Minneapolis, Minn., December 14, 1922, the second daughter of the late Harvard and Mildred Rockwell.

She graduated from Simmons College in 1945 and married William B. Langworthy in 1947. Mr. Langworthy died in 2005.

Mrs. Langworthy leaves her sisters, Connie O'Neill of Greens Farms, Conn., and Jean Anderson of Brentwood, Calif.; her children, David, Tim (Mary), Barbara and Libby (Jon Fleuchaus); and five grandsons, Andrew, Sam and Jack Langworthy and Wesley and Sam Fleuchaus.

Mrs. Langworthy loved being a mother most of all, but she also enjoyed the many years she spent as a guide at the Jeremiah Lee Mansion.

A remembrance will be held Saturday, April 5, at the National Cemetery in Bourne.

Her family requests that in lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to the Marblehead Museum & Historical Society, 170 Washington St., Marblehead, MA 01945.