LuRee Sophronia Shannon

2 October 1926–10 May 1996 (Age 69)
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

The Life Summary of LuRee Sophronia

When LuRee Sophronia Shannon was born on 2 October 1926, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joseph Frances Shannon, was 50 and her mother, LuRee Elizabeth Pugh, was 20. She married Arthur Lawrence Smith on 15 March 1959, in Elko, Elko, Nevada, United States. She died on 10 May 1996, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Garlick Todd Jr.
1922–2003
LuRee Sophronia Shannon
1926–1996
LuRee Shannon Todd
1950–2020

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World Events (8)

1927
Age 1
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1927 · First Hotel in Idaho Falls
Age 1
The Bonneville Hotel was built in 1927. It became the second hotel in Idaho Falls and the first geared for upper class patrons.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
Age 19
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.

Name Meaning

Irish:shortened form of Shanahan .shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seanáin ‘descendant of Seanán’, a personal name based on a pet form of seán ‘old’. This Irish surname became established in Scotland in the 14th century.

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

Possible Related Names

Shanahan
Synan

Sources (14)

  • Legacy NFS Source: LuRee Sophronia Shannon - Individual or family possessions: Death record or certificate: birth-name: LuRee Sophronia Shannon
  • Luree S Smith, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Luree Shannon in entry for Arthur L Smith, "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007"

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