When Donald John Klade was born on 23 November 1924, in Blue Island, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Theodore John Klade, was 21 and his mother, Verena Anna Marie Hornung, was 19. He lived in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years. He died on 8 March 1981, in Anoka, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Elk River, Sherburne, Minnesota, United States.
English (Somerset): from Middle English slade ‘valley, low-lying marshy ground’ (Old English slæd). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a valley or marsh, or habitational, for someone from any of several minor places so named: the placename Slade is especially common in Devon, where eighteen examples are known.
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