When Helen M. Ewald was born on 1 July 1928, in South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States, her father, Leon Ewald, was 23 and her mother, Bernice H. Mezykowski, was 17. She died on 9 March 2008, in South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States.
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The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
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North German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements ēo ‘law, custom, right’ (a rare element in personal names, found mostly in Old Saxon) + wald ‘rule’. This name was borne in the 7th century by two brothers (distinguished as ‘Ewald the White’ and ‘Ewald the Black’) who were missionaries in northern Germany. They became the patron saints of Cologne and Westphalia, and so contributed to the popularity of the personal name (and hence the eventual frequency of the surname) in these areas.
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