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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- 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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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1925 · B.B. King is Born
B.B. King was born on September 16, 1925, in Itta Bean, Mississippi. He was a famous American blues singer, electric guitarist, and record producer. In 1987, he inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
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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