Deloris Ruth Poole

Brief Life History of Deloris Ruth

When Deloris Ruth Poole was born on 11 August 1929, in Tell City, Troy Township, Perry, Indiana, United States, her father, Clarence Douglas Poole, was 29 and her mother, Millie Esther Stevens, was 27. She married Joseph Carl Willett on 27 November 1947, in Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky, United States. She died on 4 November 2011, in Louisville, Cass, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Plattsmouth, Cass, Nebraska, United States.

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Joseph Carl Willett
1923–1986
Deloris Ruth Poole
1929–2011
Marriage: 27 November 1947

Sources (6)

  • Dolores R Poole in household of Clarence D Poole, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Delorise Ruth Poole - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Delorise Ruth Poole
  • Ruth Poole, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"

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World Events (8)

1931

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

1944 · Congress Passes the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Project

The Flood Control Act of 1944 was passed and would later be called the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program. It was named after the authors of the program Lewis A. Pick and William Glenn Sloan. It began as two separate plans but they both had the idea for an irrigation system that would help with the flooding of the Missouri River.

1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment

Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English pol(e), polle, poul(e) ‘pool, pond’ (Old English pōl). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by a pool, or habitative, from a place so named.

English: variant of Paul .

Possibly an Americanized form of German Puhl or Pfuhl(e) (see Pool 4).

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

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