Roy Floyd Dean

Male22 January 1926–26 January 2008

Brief Life History of Roy Floyd

When Roy Floyd Dean was born on 22 January 1926, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, his father, Floyd Irwin Dean, was 22 and his mother, Lilian Bertha Born, was 25. He married June Vivian Benedict on 8 July 1949, in Maricopa, Pinal, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 26 January 2008, in Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Louis B Hazelton Memorial Cemetery, Buckeye, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Roy Floyd Dean
1926–2008
June Vivian Benedict
1929–2018
Marriage: 8 July 1949
Terry Lee Dean
1962–1969

Sources (10)

  • Roy F Dean, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Roy Floyd Dean - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Roy Floyd Dean
  • Roy Floyd Dean, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    8 July 1949Maricopa, Pinal, Arizona, United States
  • Children (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1927

    Age 1

    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    1931 · The Prehistoric Minnesota Woman

    Age 5

    The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.

    1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

    Age 22

    The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

    Name Meaning

    English: topographic name from Middle English dene ‘valley’ (Old English denu), or a habitational name from any of several places in various parts of England named Dean or Dene from this word.

    English: nickname or occupational name for the servant of a dean or nickname for someone thought to resemble a dean. A dean was an ecclesiastical official, the head of a chapter of canons or a church official with jurisdiction over a sub-division of an archdeaconry. Though no doubt some deans had illegitimate children, they were officially celibate, and in the main the surname is probably a nickname in origin, similar to Bishop , Prior , Priest , and Monk . The Middle English word deen, dien, dein, is a borrowing of Old French d(e)ien, doien from Latin decanus (originally a leader of ten men, from decem ‘ten’), and thus is a cognate of Deacon .

    English: from the Middle English personal name Deyne (or Dene) a rhyming pet form of Reynald (see Reginald ).

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

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