Brief Life History of Donald Eugene
When Donald Eugene Elwell was born on 30 April 1931, in Red Bluff, Tehama, California, United States, his father, Homer Orville Elwell, was 24 and his mother, Mary Muriel "Mickey" Cook, was 23. He married Helen Janet Rees on 1 December 1967, in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, United States. He lived in Petaluma Judicial Township, Sonoma, California, United States in 1940 and Petaluma, Sonoma, California, United States for about 1 years. He died on 17 July 1981, in Clackamas, Oregon, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Petaluma, Sonoma, California, United States.
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- Donald E Elwell, "United States 1950 Census"
- Donald Eugene Elwell, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995"
- Donald Eug Elwell, "Oregon Death Index, 1971-2008"
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1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Elwell in Dorset, from Old English hǣl ‘omen’ or hǣle ‘hale, safe’ or hǣllu ‘health, healing’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’. The reference is probably to a spring now called the Wishing Well. Compare Halliwell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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