Stovold,+Minnie


 * Minnie Stovold**

Minnie was born Minnie Allen on 9th November 1907, in Batley, near Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire. She married Willie Stovold in Skipton in the third quarter of 1929. They had one son George E. Stovold who was born in 1935. Her husband Willie Stovold was killed in 1944 when his Lancaster bomber was shot down on a mission over France. Minnie was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1945 for her work at Steeton Dump munitions factory, near Keighley. The London Gazette of 15th June 1945, names her as Minnie Stovald, Machine Hand, Royal Ordnance Factory. Minnie died in Keighley in September 1989, aged 81 years.