Ethel Irene Westhoff

Brief Life History of Ethel Irene

When Ethel Irene Westhoff was born on 30 March 1903, in Oxford Township, Johnson, Kansas, United States, her father, William Henry Westhoff, was 31 and her mother, Anna Laura Bartlett, was 25. She married Samuel Franklin Garten on 12 June 1926, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. She lived in Kansas, United States in 1905 and The Home, Cape Province, South Africa in 1968. She died on 17 June 1985, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Franklin Garten
1901–1968
Ethel Irene Westhoff
1903–1985
Marriage: 12 June 1926

Sources (31)

  • Irene Westhoff in household of Eugene C Wells, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Ethel Irene Westhoff, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Irene Garten, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1905

Last Zulu uprising against British.

1925

Afrikaans recognized as South Africa's official language.

Name Meaning

North German (Westphalia): topographic name for someone who lived on a farm situated to the west of a settlement, from Middle Low German west- ‘west(en)’ + hof ‘farmstead, manor farm’.

Dutch: habitational name from Westhof or Westhove in West Flanders, or any of various other places similarly named.

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

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