Raymond Lee Fair

Brief Life History of Raymond Lee

When Raymond Lee Fair was born on 23 September 1913, in Oden, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States, his father, James Theoplis Fair, was 37 and his mother, Mannie Belle Fryar, was 31. He married Josefina Cruz Barba about 1945. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Supervisorial District 2, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1940 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He died on 15 October 1965, in Phoenix Memorial Hospital, Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Tempe Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Raymond Lee Fair
1913–1965
Josefina Cruz Barba
1914–2002
Marriage: about 1945
Parlee Joyce Fair
1946–1947
James Raymond Fair
1949–1993

Sources (15)

  • Raymond L Fair, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Raymond Fair, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953"
  • Raymond Lee Fair, "Arizona, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

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1927

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Name Meaning

English: nickname meaning ‘handsome, beautiful, fair’, Middle English fair, fayr, Old English fæger. The word was also occasionally used as a personal name in Middle English, applied to both men and women.

Irish: translation into English of Gaelic fionn ‘fair’, which Woulfe describes as a ‘descriptive epithet that supplanted the real surname’, or a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac F(h)inn, a variant of Mag Fhinn (see McGinn ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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