Mark Gay Nasfell

Brief Life History of Mark Gay

When Mark Gay Nasfell was born on 22 February 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, George William Nasfell, was 29 and his mother, Hazel Gay Kesler, was 28. He married Orpha Madeline Ihla on 10 May 1944, in King, Washington, United States. He lived in Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1930. He died on 24 October 1989, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 76.

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Family Time Line

Mark Gay Nasfell
1913–1989
Druce Nadean Foutz
1920–1950
Marriage: 12 February 1949
Nasfell
1950–1950

Sources (19)

  • Mark G Nasfell, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Mark Gay Nasfell, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
  • Mark K Nosfel, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"

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World Events (8)

1914 · The American Can Company of Utah Building Complex

The American Can Company of Utah Building Complex was built downtown Ogden on 20th and Lincoln Ave. It employed over 450 people and produced millions of cans of food from crops of local farmers. It was closed in 1979 but was added as a Historic Place in 2005 to the National Register. It has also become a headquarters for Amer Sports.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1934 · The Construction of a Reservoir

In 1933 the funds were obtained to start building a reservoir at the Pineview site. President Roosevelt then authorized the Ogden River Project on November 16, 1935 and was supervised and fully funded under the National Industrial Recovery Act.

Name Meaning

From the Latin name Marcus , borne by the Evangelist, author of the second gospel in the New Testament, and by several other early and medieval saints. In Arthurian legend, King Mark is the aged ruler of Cornwall to whom Isolde is brought as a bride by Tristan; his name was presumably of Celtic origin, perhaps derived from the element march ‘horse’. This was not a particularly common name in the Middle Ages but was in more frequent use by the end of the 16th century.

Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.

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