Brief Life History of Donna Mae
When Donna Mae Smith was born on 21 August 1928, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, her father, Martin Smith, was 51 and her mother, Esther Elizabeth East, was 35. She married Chester Odil Lane on 6 June 1944, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in United States in 1949. She died on 20 December 2009, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Evergreen Memorial Park, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Donna Lane, "United States 1950 Census"
- Donna Lane, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Donna Lane, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"
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1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1929 · Arches National Park
Arches National Park was designated as a national monument on April 12, 1929 and was re-designated as a national park later that year.
1950
United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal, especially iron, such as a blacksmith or farrier, from Middle English smith ‘smith’ (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Early examples are also found in the Latin form Faber . Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is also the most frequent of all surnames in the US. It is very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). This surname (in any of the two possible English senses; see also below) is also found in Haiti. See also Smither .
English: from Middle English smithe ‘smithy, forge’ (Old English smiththe). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a blacksmith's shop, occupational, for someone who worked in one, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Smitha in King's Nympton (Devon). Compare Smithey .
Irish and Scottish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac Gobhann, Irish Mac Gabhann ‘son of the smith’. See McGowan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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