Brief Life History of Virginia May
When Virginia May Thorpe was born on 21 May 1924, in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, United States, her father, Lawrence George Thorpe, was 34 and her mother, Amy M Carrigan, was 24. She married Charles Walters Zollinger on 10 May 1945, in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in United States in 1949. She died on 23 June 1984, in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Rexburg Cemetery, Madison, Idaho, United States.
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- Virginia M Zollinger, "United States 1950 Census"
- Virginia Mae Thorpe, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Virginia Zollinger, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1928 · Camden Public Library is Opened
The citizens of Camden, Maine had voted (in 1896) to establish a free public library in the town. The land for the library to be built on was donated by Mary Louise Curtis Bok in 1916. After years of fundraising and construction, the cornerstone was finally laid on August 17, 1927. The library opened on June 11, 1928. The library remains open to this day, and is now considered a National Historic Landmark.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English thorp(e) ‘village, hamlet, farmstead’ (Old Norse, Old English thorp ‘secondary settlement’). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in such a settlement, or habitational, for someone from any of several places called Thorp(e), which are most frequent in Yorkshire, the Midlands, and East Anglia. Compare Throop .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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