Rhines, Ilo
Biography
Ilo Rowell was born on a northern Delaware County farm in 1932 and graduated from Edgewood High School in 1949. She married Donald Rhines the following year, and later moved into the Rhines’ family farm. They had a dairy herd and began dairying. They were active with the National Farmers’ Organization (NFO) in Delaware County and participated in the milk holding actions of the NFO in the 1960s. Unable to support their family on their farm income, Ilo Rhines worked occasional jobs until she obtained a rural mail route which she ran from 1979 to 1993. In 2001, she was president of the United Methodist Women of the Dubuque District.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Rhines, Ilo, 10/26/2001
The bulk of the Ilo Rhines interview described the operation of the NFO at the county level in northeastern Iowa. It included lively material about growing up female in rural Iowa as well as a description of how she and her family survived financially after the NFO failed in their bid to become the bargaining agent for farmers.
Voices from the Land: An Oral History Project in Iowa
Oral histories with Iowa farm women conducted as part of the Rural Women's Project of the Iowa Women's Archives.
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