When Vera Louise Bissitt was born on 15 April 1940, in Center Township, Stevens, Kansas, United States, her father, Kenneth Benjamin Bissitt, was 21 and her mother, Lydia Belle Honey, was 20. She married Marvin Wayne Sims on 26 October 1957. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 1 February 2012, in Moab, Grand, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Moab, Grand, Utah, United States.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
The Defense Depot Ogden Utah was one of several facilities located around the nation that produced and maintain equiptment needed for the Armed Forces. During World War II, it was also used to house prisoners of war from both Germany and Italy. It has since been moved to Hill Airforce Base, south of Ogden, and the land has been mostly been made into Ogden's Business Depot.
Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.
Scottish (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French biset ‘dark’, a diminutive of bis (see Biss ).
Altered form of French Bizet: nickname for someone with a dark complexion, derived from bis ‘grayish-brown’. Altered ending reflects the Canadian and American French practice of sounding the final -t. Compare Bissette .
History: The surname Bissett (see 1 above) was brought to Scotland from Nottinghamshire c. 1175 by Henricus Byset, an Englishman who became a retainer of King William the Lion. — It was Jean George Bizet from Haute-Saône, France, whose surname was changed to Bissett (see 2 above) after his immigration to NS, Canada, in 1752.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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