When Vaai Filemu Leilua was born in 1944, in Lano, Samoa, her father, Filemu Leilua, was 34 and her mother, Paepae Falaga'i, was 29. She died in 1982, in her hometown, at the age of 38.
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Western Samoa becomes independent, the first Pacific island nation to do so.
Dutch (also De Vaal): from Dutch vaal ‘sallow’, a nickname for someone with a pale complexion.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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