Patricia June Anthony

Brief Life History of Patricia June

Patricia June Anthony was born on 23 August 1929, in Pacific Grove, Monterey, California, United States. She married Thad Wayne Ekstrand on 11 November 1951, in Willow Glen, San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States. She lived in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1950. She died on 31 August 2011, in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, at the age of 82.

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Family Time Line

Thad Wayne Ekstrand
1920–2010
Patricia June Anthony
1929–2011
Marriage: 11 November 1951

Sources (15)

  • Patricia J Anthony, "United States 1950 Census"
  • 1929 California, Birth Index for Patricia June Anthony
  • 2011 United States Social Security Death Index for Patricia June Ekstrand

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World Events (8)

1931

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

1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary

Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963. 

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 and West Indian (mainly Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, also Dutch Caribbean): from the personal name Anthony, Latin Antonius, which, with its variants and cognates, is one of the commonest personal names in Europe. Spellings with -h-, which first appear in English in the 16th century and in French (as Anthoine) at about the same time, are due to the erroneous belief that the name derives from Greek anthos ‘flower’. The popularity of the personal name in Christendom is largely due to the cult of the Egyptian hermit Saint Anthony ( AD 251–356), who in his old age gathered a community of hermits around him, and for that reason is regarded by some as the founder of monasticism. It was further increased by the fame of Saint Anthony of Padua (1195–1231), who long enjoyed a great popular cult and who is believed to help people find lost things. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates and derivatives (patronymics) from other languages, for example Greek patronymic Antoniades , Italian Antoni , Polish Antoniewicz , Croatian and Serbian Antonović (see Antonovich ) and Antunović; see also below. The name Anthony is also found among Christians in southern India, but since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US. Compare Antony .

German, Flemish, and French (mainly Alsace): Latinized (humanistic) patronymic from local equivalents of the Latin personal name Antonius, from its genitive form Antoni(i). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the German, Dutch, French, and Slovak cognates Antoni 1 and Antony 2.

History: John Anthony of Hampstead, Middlesex, England (now part of north London) migrated to Boston, MA, in 1634. By 1640 he had moved to Providence, RI, where his descendants are still established.

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

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Letter from Pat Ekstrand about her grandfather, "Danda"

June 19, 1978 Dearest Tina, You asked me to write about Danda. My painting of Danda, Nana, Bobbie and Daddy at the old ranch, shows Danda wearing that old sweater I always remember him w …

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