Brief Life History of Edna Mae
When Edna Mae Thompson was born on 11 July 1929, in Brewster, Blaine, Nebraska, United States, her father, Floyd Leroy Thompson, was 30 and her mother, Ada Iola Hall, was 21. She married Sherman Norman Taylor on 24 December 1946, in Hemingford, Box Butte, Nebraska, United States. She lived in Blaine, Nebraska, United States in 1935 and Natick Election Precinct, Thomas, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died on 1 December 2002, in Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States.
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- Edma M Thompson in household of Floyd L Thompson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Edna M Thompson, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Edna M Taylor, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1944 · Congress Passes the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Project
The Flood Control Act of 1944 was passed and would later be called the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program. It was named after the authors of the program Lewis A. Pick and William Glenn Sloan. It began as two separate plans but they both had the idea for an irrigation system that would help with the flooding of the Missouri River.
1949 · NATO is Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The agreement of the alliance is to help defend each other if attacked by an external country. The last country to enter was Montenegro in 2017.
Name Meaning
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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Obituary: The Ledger Dec. 6, 2002 Edna M. Taylor, 73, died Sunday, December 1, 2002, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, NE. Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 4, 200 …
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