Alice Wilma Winter

Brief Life History of Alice Wilma

When Alice Wilma Winter was born on 2 May 1920, in Algoma, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States, her father, Robert Washington Winter, was 28 and her mother, Irene Ivy Hawkins, was 24. She married Julius Arthur Zastrow on 11 April 1986, in Shawano, Wisconsin, United States. She lived in Beat 5, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States in 1930. She died on 12 February 2005, in Lafayette, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States.

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Julius Arthur Zastrow
1922–1987
Alice Wilma Winter
1920–2005
Marriage: 11 April 1986

Sources (5)

  • Alice W Winter, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Alice Wilma Christman, "Wisconsin Marriage Index, 1973-1997"
  • Alice W Zastrow, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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1925 · B.B. King is Born

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1944 · The G.I Bill

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Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English (Old English) personal name Winter (Old English Wintra), originally a nickname from the word for ‘winter’ and perhaps still a nickname (see 2 below) in the period of surname formation.

English: occasionally perhaps an occupational name from Middle English winter, a variant of Middle English, Anglo-Norman French viniter, vinter ‘wine merchant’.

Irish: Anglicized form (part translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla-Gheimhridh ‘son of the lad of winter’, from geimhreadh ‘winter’. This name is also Anglicized McAlivery.

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

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