Katherine Elsie McDow / US Army / World War II / Jul 4 1922 - Aug 20 1996 St. Petersburg Times (FL) - August 24, 1996 McDOW, KATHERINE ELSIE, 74, of Inverness, formerly of St. Petersburg, died Tuesday (Aug. 20, 1996) at Citrus Memorial Hospital. Born in Austin, Minn., she lived here before moving to Inverness in 1975. She was a member of the Army Medical Corps serving in World War II and a member of First Lutheran Church, Inverness. Survivors include her husband, William D.; two sons, Robert A. Wypcha, St. Petersburg, and James P. Wypcha, Inverness; a daughter, Cynthia K. Newhart, Floral City; two brothers, Floyd Thompson and James P. Thompson, both of Falconer, N.Y.; 16 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Charles E. Davis Funeral Home, Inverness.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
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.
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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