Brief Life History of Wallace
When Wallace DYKSTRA was born on 4 August 1940, his father, William Dykstra, was 46 and his mother, Gladys M. Dykstra, was 35. He lived in Atchison, Kansas, United States in 2005. He died on 10 December 2005, in Kansas, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Wallace W Or Tobey Dykstra, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Wallace Warren Dykstra, "Find A Grave Index"
- Wallace W Dykstra, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1954 · Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a U.S. Supreme Court case which ruled racial segregation in public schools as unconstitutional. The unanimous decision was handed down on May 17, 1954. The case was originally filed by the Brown family in Topeka, Kansas.
1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
Name Meaning
West Frisian and Dutch: variant, mostly archaic or Americanized, of Dijkstra, composed of Dutch dijk ‘dike’ + the suffix -stra from Old Frisian sittera ‘inhabitant of’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a dike, and a habitational name for someone from a place called after its dike, such as Surhuizumerdijk and Haskerdijken. The surname Dykstra is also found in Germany, including East Frisia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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