Brief Life History of Gayle Beattie
When Gayle Beattie Dabel was born on 10 October 1920, in Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, her father, Wilford Louis Dabel, was 20 and her mother, Anna Mary Kraft, was 22. She married Roy Frank Bartlett on 13 August 1942, in District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Chevy Chase, Cape Province, South Africa in 2002 and Chevy Chase, Montgomery, Maryland, United States in 2007. She died on 2 January 2007, in Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Silver Spring, Montgomery, Maryland, United States.
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- Gail Dabel, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Gayle Beattie Dabel - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Gayle Beattie Dabel
- Gayle Beaddie Dabel, "District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950"
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1922
Communist Party of South Africa established (after 1953, the South African Communist Party).
1923 · First Presidential Radio Broadcast
"On December 6, 1923, President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast. It was covered by 42 stations and became known as the ""State of the Union"" address."
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a maker and seller of forks, from Middle High German gabel(e), German Gabel ‘fork’. The reference is to any of the various pieces of agricultural equipment denoted by this word, for example hay forks, shearlegs, etc. Table forks were not used in Germany for eating before the 16th century.
German: topographic name for someone who lived near a fork in a road or river, or owned a forked piece of land, from the German word (see 1 above) in this transferred sense.
German: habitational name from any of the places called Gabel in Germany, in Schleswig, Thuringia, Silesia, and in particular in Bohemia, which derive their name from Slavic jablo ‘apple tree’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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