Complex sentence: Fowler was born in Roanoke, Virginia, on September 5,1908, the son of Mack Johnson Fowler, a locomotive engineer, and his wife, the former Bertha ("née" Browning).
Split into simpler sentences: Fowler was born in Roanoke, Virginia, on September 5,1908. He was the son of Mack Johnson Fowler, a locomotive engineer, and his wife, the former Bertha ("née" Browning).