Ruth Arlene Stoker

Brief Life History of Ruth Arlene

When Ruth Arlene Stoker was born on 21 November 1920, in Neola, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Byron Hiram Stoker, was 31 and her mother, Marie Wilhelmina Roberts, was 32. She lived in Lewis Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1925. She died on 6 October 2005, in Neola, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Neola, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.

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Clinton Everett Kilts
1919–1981
Ruth Arlene Stoker
1920–2005

Sources (13)

  • Ruth Stoker in household of Agnes Roberts, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Ruth Arlene Stoker, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
  • Ruth Arlene Stoker Kilts, "Find A Grave Index"

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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.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1944 · The G.I Bill

The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name for someone who lived at a place called Stoke; see Stoke .

English: in northeastern England, a variant of Stokoe .

English: in southern England, especially in Sussex and Surrey, a variant of Stocker .

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

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