Kepa Toomalatai

Male1913–1975

Brief Life History of Kepa

Kepa Toomalatai was born in 1913, in Upolu, Samoa. He married Paepae Falaga'i in 1936, in Samoa. He died in 1975, in Savai'i, Samoa, at the age of 62.

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Kepa Toomalatai
1913–1975
Paepae Falaga'i
1915–1986
Marriage: 1936

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  • Legacy NFS Source: Kepa Toomalatai - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Kepa Toomalatai

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  • Marriage
    1936Samoa
  • World Events (3)

    1914

    Age 1

    New Zealand occupies Western Samoa during World War I and continues to administer it after the war by virtue of a League of Nations mandate (and a United Nations mandate after World War II).

    1939

    Age 26

    U.S. troops stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.

    1962

    Age 49

    Western Samoa becomes independent, the first Pacific island nation to do so.

    Name Meaning

    Polish: variant of Kępa, from kępa ‘islet’. The same word is also applied to isolated clumps of trees and to tufts of grass; hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a small island or by an isolated clump of trees.

    German: habitational name from any of several places so named, for example in Silesia (now Poland).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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