Individual Details

Was placed in 'Home of Redeeming Love' on 14 Sep 1937 and became a ward of the state in order to be placed for adoption.
Adoptive parents were Eugene Henry Rath and Alma Victoria Freisen.

Ancestry lists his father as Olen Wayne White - who was living in Oklahoma in 1930. Parents were never married.

1940 Census. Britton, Oklahoma Co, OK, Hh 24
Eugene Rath, 40, b. Iowa, Saleman, Building materials
Alma, wife, 40, b. Canada, Naturalized
William, son, 2, b. OK

Birth	28 Aug 1937	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
Marriage	29 Mar 1956	Hillsboro, Montgomery County, Illinois - Patrician Ann Gowins
Death	30 May 2008	Puxico, Stoddard County, Missouri

Spouse	Patrician Ann Gowins (1939 - 2003)
Child	Carol Ann Rath (1956 - 2021)

Mother

Harriet Geneva Boaldin (1915 - 1980)