Jacob Roy Walter Rusch

Brief Life History of Jacob Roy Walter

When Jacob Roy Walter Rusch was born on 10 July 1922, in Leutesdorf, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, his father, Karl Walter Rusch, was 41 and his mother, Louisa Frances Johnson, was 23. He married Mary Louise Dugan on 30 December 1941, in Delavan, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States. He died on 8 February 2007, in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Denver, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States.

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Jacob Roy Walter Rusch
1922–2007
Mary Louise Dugan
1922–1942
Marriage: 30 December 1941

Sources (2)

  • Jacob Roy Rush, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Jacob R Rush, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

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

1929 · Denver Airport opens

On Oct 17 1929, Denver Municipal Airport opens. Later, in 1964, it would be renamed Stapleton International Airport. It would be replaced by Denver International Airport, 31 years later.

1945 · Peace in a Post War World

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

Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Erwin, Helmuth, Kurt, Alfons, Claus, Ewald, Frieda, Fritz, Gerhardt, Hans, Heinz.

German (also Rüsch): topographic name from Middle High German, Middle Low German rusch ‘rush, reeds’, or a habitational name from a place called with this word in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria. Compare Ruesch 1.

German (also Rüsch): from a short form of any of various personal names formed with the Old High German element hrōd ‘fame, renown’. Compare Ruesch 2.

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

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