Brief Life History of Delores Lucille
When Delores Lucille Fox was born on 2 February 1918, in McClelland, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, William Dale Fox, was 22 and her mother, Etta Graybill, was 22. She lived in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1949 and Washington Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1950. She died on 18 November 2005, in Treynor, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 87.
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- Dolores Forrester in household of Ida Forrester, "United States Census, 1940"
- Delois F. Fox, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
- Delores L Forrester, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1922 · Oldest radio station west of the Mississippi
The Karlowa Radio Corporation, in Davenport, was issued a new license for broadcasting and with it they were randomly assigned call letters of WOC. The small studio was the first to reach the Iowa area and was identified as one of 21 stations that were desirable because of coverage area and performance. In September 1927, WOC became a member of the new NBC radio network and still is today. In 1932, Ronald Reagan got his first broadcasting job at WOC as a sportscaster and he returned in 1988 after his presidency tour. WOC is the oldest surviving broadcasting station in the middle Mississippi Valley and was the first to keep logs on their electrical consumption and their on-air programming.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from a word denoting the animal (Middle English, Old English fox), widely used to denote a sly or cunning individual. It was also used for someone with red hair. In England this surname absorbed some early examples of surnames derived from the ancient Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks .
Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney ).
Irish: also adopted for Ó Catharnaigh, see Kearney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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