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This collection consists of three scrapbooks created by Gloria Lois Bowen (later Gloria Lois Bowen McCoy) during her youth in Ohio and Florida, circa 1937 - 1940, and undated. The scrapbooks include greeting cards; newspaper clippings; church, school, and community programs; photographs; and ephemeral items. Also included in the collection are postcards of buildings and tourist-related activities in and around the Daytona Beach, Florida, area, 1911 and undated. There is an issue of the the Daytona Beach Morning Journal from July 21, 1969, covering the lunar moon mission. Gloria Lois Bowen was born in Lakeland, Ohio to Dana Thomas Bowen and Lois Knauff Snow Bowen. She had one younger sister, Phoebe May Bowen. Beginning in the early 1930s, the Bowen family became seasonal residents of Florida, spending half their year in Daytona Beach, FL and returning to Lakeland, OH between May and October. By 1936, the Bowen family purchased a home in Daytona Beach and Gloria attended Lenox Avenue Elementary School. In 1944, she graduated from Sea Breeze High School and enrolled at Duke University in the Woman's College. There, she met John Philip McCoy Sr. and the couple married on November 16, 1946. They had three children: Dana Lois McCoy, John Philip McCoy Jr., and Carol Bowen McCoy. The McCoys eventually returned to Daytona Beach, where they lived from 1960 to 1995. John Philip McCoy Sr. was a partner at a Daytona law firm until his retirement in 1982. He passed away in 2011. Gloria was active in the First Presbyterian Church, the St. James Episcopal Church, the Volusia Easter Seal Society, and the Cherry Laurel Garden Club in Daytona. Gloria Lois Bowen McCoy passed away on May 20, 2022.