Gladys Leona Short

Brief Life History of Gladys Leona

When Gladys Leona Short was born on 30 January 1905, in Kansas, United States, her father, Charles Ruben Short, was 32 and her mother, Louisa Ellen Hight, was 32. She married Harold Grant Brannan on 27 November 1922, in Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Majestic Election Precinct, Douglas, Washington, United States in 1940 and Okanogan, Okanogan, Washington, United States for about 1 years. She died in May 1984, in Saint John, Whitman, Washington, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Blue Mountain Memorial Garden, College Place, Walla Walla, Washington, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harold Grant Brannan
1897–1968
Gladys Leona Short
1905–1984
Marriage: 27 November 1922
Carl Hubert Brannan
1923–2007
Gilbert Glen Brannan
1926–1987

Sources (13)

  • Gladys Brannan, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Gladys L. Short - Government record: Death record or certificate: birth-name: Gladys L. Short
  • Gladys Brannan, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1907 · Pike's Market

Pike’s Market is one of the oldest still working farmer’s markets in the US. It is located in Seattle’s central business district, just north of Belltown , and southwest of central waterfront and Elliott Bay. One of the attractions there is the gum wall. 

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).

English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter .

Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr ).

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

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