Brief Life History of Marvin
When Marvin Heck was born on 17 May 1924, in Isabel, Dewey, South Dakota, United States, his father, Reinholdt Heck, was 20 and his mother, Lydia Schmidt, was 23. He married Doris M Mielke on 27 November 1947, in Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States. He lived in Township 16 Range 22, Dewey, South Dakota, United States in 1940 and Marshall, Lyon, Minnesota, United States in 1950. He died on 13 October 2016, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States.
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- Marvin R Heck, "United States 1950 Census"
- MARVIN R HECK, "BillionGraves Index"
- Marvin Heck in entry for Lydia Heck, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1931 · The Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
Name Meaning
South German: topographic name from Middle High German hecke, hegge ‘hedge’. This surname is common in southern Germany and the Rhineland, and is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Dutch: topographic name from Middle Dutch heck ‘fence, gate’. Compare Van Hecke .
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a gate or ‘hatch’ (especially one leading into a forest), northern Middle English heck (Old English hæcce). Compare Hatch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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