When Howard LaVerle Dillon was born on 25 September 1909, in Douglas, Kansas, United States, his father, John Silas Dillon, was 42 and his mother, Alice Oyler, was 39. He married Pearl Rosetta Jones on 22 June 1929, in Douglas, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Marion Township, Douglas, Kansas, United States for about 40 years. He died on 21 January 1990, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Washington Creek Cemetery, Lone Star, Douglas, Kansas, United States.
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English, Irish, and French: from the Norman French personal name Dillon, arising from the ancient Germanic Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root dil- ‘destroy’).
English: habitational name from Dilwyn in Herefordshire, recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English dīglum, dative plural of dīgle ‘settlement at the shady or secret places’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name, a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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