Billie Jean Stancil Rowles, daughter of Leumos and Sarah Ethel Harris Stancil, was born June 8, 1928, in Nashville, Nash County, North Carolina.

Billie Jean married William Thomas Rowles Sr. on May 17, 1946, in Hamilton County, Tennessee. William was born May 12, 1926.

Billie Jean died Oct. 20, 1986, in Panama City, Florida.

Her husband passed away on July 18, 1997.

They are both buried in Chattanooga Memorial Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee.