Friday 25 October 2019

Izora Mabel Powell

Capitoline Yearbook, 1925 - Ancestry

Izora Mabel Powell, the daughter of Clarence Nelson Powell & Ethel Izora Stubbles, was born in Illinois. 

She married a Canadian by the name of Max Bruce Willard Batho, the son of George R Batho & Margaret A Robertson and had 4 children - Norman, Mabel, Jean & Barbara.

Many trees have Max's name as Bruce and Max as a nickname but he was registered with all three names in Manitoba. 


courtesy of Dottie Batho - Ancestry
 Bruce W. Batho, an Associate of the Society, died on February 9. 1986, at the age of seventy-seven. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on May 27, 1908, Mr. Batho was educated at the University of Manitoba. He was graduated magna cum laude with a business administration degree. He later moved to Springfield, Illinois, and became a U.S. citizen in 1938. Mr. Batho was an assistant actuary for the Illinois State Insurance Department, and worked for Illinois insurance companies. He joined Life Insurance Company of Georgia in 1944 as associate actuary and was elected vice president and actuary in 1954. A year later, he was elected to the board of directors. He was named comptroller in 1957, was elected to the executive committee in 1961, and named executive vice president- Administration in 1963. During his career, he also served as chairman of the underwriting, claims, and profit-sharing committees, and as a member of the finance committee, and common stock subcommittee. He retired in 1977, continuing as a director and was named advisory director in May 1979. Mr. Batho had also served as board chairman of Insurance Systems of America, a national insurance consortium, from 1972-75. He was past president of the Fledgling Foundation, a child-care charity, and the Chicago and Southeastern actuarial clubs, a former board member of Georgia Baptist Medical Center, and treasurer and a former chairman of the board of deacons of Wieuca Road Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Izora (Powell) Batho of Atlanta; a son, Norman; two daughters, Mabel Green and Barbara; and twelve grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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