When Shirley Mae Chastain was born on 13 September 1938, in Platte, Charles Mix, South Dakota, United States, her father, James Asa Chastain, was 46 and her mother, Adeline Mae "Addie" Redding, was 35. She married Robert Glen Block on 27 February 1956, in Yankton, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Winner, Tripp, South Dakota, United States in 1950. She died on 27 September 2008, in Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Named in honor of Major Ployer Peter Hill, Hill Field started as an ill-fated Air Mail experiment. Hoping to be located closer to the Salt Lake City area, the present-day site near Ogden was a clear favorite. In July 1939, Congress gave the green light for the establishment and construction of the Ogden Air Depot. Hill Field officially opened on 7 November 1940. Hill Field officially became Hill Air Force Base after World War II and continued to store and maintain warplanes during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Today the Air Force Base is still in service, but it also has an Aerospace Museum on site where many people visit each year to learn of its history in Northern Utah.
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Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
French:
(southern): variant of Chastang .
nickname from Old French chastain ‘chestnut’ (a nut), possibly for someone with chestnut-colored hair. Compare Chasteen , Chesteen , Chastine , and Shasteen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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