Betty Jo Fosdick

Brief Life History of Betty Jo

When Betty Jo Fosdick was born on 14 July 1931, in Mullen, Hooker, Nebraska, United States, her father, Ward Franklin Fosdick, was 32 and her mother, Zelpha Ruby Ronzo, was 25. She married Lloyd Leonard Ginkens Jr. on 14 June 1949, in Mullen, Hooker, Nebraska, United States. She lived in Mullen Election Precinct, Hooker, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died on 3 February 2002, in Mullen, Hooker, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Cedarview Cemetery, Mullen, Hooker, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Lloyd Leonard Ginkens Jr.
1925–2015
Betty Jo Fosdick
1931–2002
Marriage: 14 June 1949

Sources (6)

  • Betty J Fosdick, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Betty Jo Fosdick Ginkens, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Betty Jo Ginkens, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

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World Events (8)

1932

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

1944 · Congress Passes the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Project

The Flood Control Act of 1944 was passed and would later be called the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program. It was named after the authors of the program Lewis A. Pick and William Glenn Sloan. It began as two separate plans but they both had the idea for an irrigation system that would help with the flooding of the Missouri River.

1950

United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from Fosdyke, Lincolnshire, so called from the genitive case of the Old English byname Fōt, meaning ‘foot’ (or the Old Norse cognate Fótr), + Old English dīc ‘ditch, dike’ (see Ditch ). This surname is now rare in Britain.

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

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