Brief Life History of Raymond Harold
When Raymond Harold Spears was born on 4 December 1924, in Oklahoma, United States, his father, John William Spears, was 24 and his mother, Eva Mae Foster, was 21. He lived in United States in 1949 and Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, United States in 1950. He died on 28 February 2003, at the age of 78, and was buried in Crestview Memorial Park, Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, United States.
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Sources (10)
- Raymond H Spears, "United States 1950 Census"
- Raymond Harold Spears, "Texas, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
- Raymond H Spears, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1941 · Comanche Code Talkers
Many Native Americans from Oklahoma were once again employed as code talkers during WWII to create a code impenetrable by enemies. Rather than Choctaw, a Comanche-language code was developed. Several of these men were sent to invade Normandy to send messages. None of the men were killed and the Comanche code was never broken.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Spear , with post-medieval excrescent -s. The name has sometimes been confused with Pearse .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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