Corinna Folkins

Corinna Folkins

Personal information
Nationality	United States
Born	(1918-12-24)24 December 1918 Los Angeles
Died	29 January 1998(1998-01-29) (aged 79) Mission Viejo, California
Sport
Sport	Lawn bowls
Club	Casta del Sol BC
Medal record Representing  United States World Outdoor Bowls Championships 1977 Worthing triples

Corinna Helen Folkins, née MacDonald (1918–1998), was a United States international lawn bowler.

Bowls career

World Championships

Folkins won a bronze medal at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing, in the triples event with Dorothy Bacon and Louise Godfrey.^[1][2]

National

Folkins was the 1981 pairs national champion ^[3] and the Southwest Division American Women's Lawn Bowls Association (AWLBA) president while bowling for the Casta del Sol Bowls Club.^[4]

Personal life

She married fellow international bowler Dick Folkins in 1947.

References

1. Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
2. "Summer 1987" (PDF). American Lawn Bowls Association. p. 4.
3. "U.S. National Lawn Bowl Champions" (PDF). Sun City Lawn Bowls.
4. "Former Presidents". SWAWLBA.