Brief Life History of Gene Duane
When Gene Duane Bray was born on 2 December 1929, in Hobart, Ross Township, Lake, Indiana, United States, his father, Carley Clint Bray, was 32 and his mother, Clova Lee Page, was 27. He married Gladys Lorraine Sheets on 15 October 1949, in Gary, Lake, Indiana, United States. He lived in Gary, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1950 and Illinois, United States in 2013. He died on 25 June 2020, at the age of 90, and was buried in Des Plaines, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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- Gene D Bray, "United States 1950 Census"
- Gene Duane Bray, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Gene Bray, "BillionGraves Index"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1932 · The Miners Union
After a contract proposal reducing wages by $1.10 a day, employees of the United Mine Workers came together and created the Progressive Miners of America in southern Illinois. After discontent arose over the 67 years of operation, the union was dissolved.
1954 · The First McDonald's Opens Its Doors
Ray Kroc opened up the first McDonalds in Des Plaines after the McDonald Brothers gave him the rights to set up restaurants thoughout the country.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places in Berkshire and Devon. The former is probably named with Old French bray ‘marsh’, the latter from the Cornish element bre ‘hill’.
English: perhaps a topographic name from northern Middle English bra ‘steep (river) bank’ or ‘brow of a hill’, denoting someone who lived at such a place.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy or Picardy called Bray (Eure, Calvados, Aisne, Somme); see 6.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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