He and Betty returned to Charleston in 1951, at which time he purchased the Charleston Hardware and Furniture store from his deceased father's partner and set up a law practice in the back office of the store. They returned together to Chicago while he completed law school. Soon thereafter he married his high school sweetheart, Betty Flanagan.
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Both parents were killed by a drunk driver in a car accident during his second year of law school. After discharge from the Marines as a staff sergeant, he returned to the University of Arkansas and, upon completion of his studies there, moved to Chicago and began law school at Northwestern University. He served in the Marine Corps and was in Hawaii, about to be shipped out to the Pacific Theater when the atomic bombs were dropped and World War II ended. He was predeceased by his parents and by his brother, Carroll Bumpers, and his sister, Margaret Ware Kahliff.Īfter graduating from Charleston High School in 1943, he enrolled at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville for summer school, knowing that he would soon be drafted to serve in World War II. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Betty Flanagan Bumpers, his sons Brent Bumpers (Lea Ann), and Bill Bumpers (Heidi), his daughter Brooke Bumpers (Gordon Low), his grandchildren Braeden, Will and Linn Bumpers, Meg and Alex Bumpers, and Callan and Emily Low, as well as numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.
He was born on Augin Charleston, Arkansas to W.R.
Bumpers, former Governor and Senator from Arkansas, passed away on January 1st at his home in Little Rock, surrounded by his family.
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