Kathy Lee Jones

Female25 August 1948–19 February 1998

Brief Life History of Kathy Lee

When Kathy Lee Jones was born on 25 August 1948, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, her father, John Walker Jones, was 25 and her mother, Virginia Ruth Michael, was 23. She died on 19 February 1998, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 49.

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Family Time Line

John Walker Jones
1923–1998
Virginia Ruth Michael
1924–2013
Kathy Lee Jones
1948–1998

Sources (3)

  • Legacy NFS Source: Kathy Lee Jones - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Kathy Lee Jones
  • Kathy Lee in entry for Virginia Ruth Michael Jones, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • Kathy Lee Justice, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (1)

World Events (3)

1949 · NATO is Established

Age 1

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.

1949 · KSL

Age 1

The station first aired on June 1, operating out of the Union Pacific Building. It was owned by the Deseret News but originally operated as an affiliate of CBS. A few months after the first broadcast, KSL moved its operations to the Broadcast House. In 1952, a 370-foot transmission tower was constructed on Farnsworth Peak to improve the station's signal coverage along the Wasatch Front. KSL also began to build a massive translator network that stretches across five states and claims the largest signal coverage of any station in the United States. KSL operated as a division of the Deseret News until Bonneville International was formed. Soon afterward, channel 5 began broadcasting its programming in color. In 1984, the station moved its Broadcast House facilities to the Triad Center and on September 10, 1995, KSL-TV became an NBC affiliate. During the 2002 Winter Olympics, KSL-TV was very influential in bringing coverage and technology to NBC.

1950

Age 2

United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.

Name Meaning

English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.

English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.

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

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