Brief Life History of Roy Kenneth
When Roy Kenneth Geilker was born on 4 July 1919, in Indiana, United States, his father, Lewis Herman Geilker, was 44 and his mother, Della M Hall, was 40. He married Joan Gertrude Meredith on 23 June 1986, in Elizabethtown, Sand Creek Township, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States. He lived in Flat Rock Township, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 12 April 1987, in Elizabethtown, Sand Creek Township, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Garland Brook Cemetery, Columbus, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States.
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- Roy Geilker in household of Lewis Geilker, "United States Census, 1920"
- Roy Geilker, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
- Roy K Geilker, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
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1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1920
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
German: nickname for a happy, boisterous, or mischievous man, a derivative of Geil .
Swiss German: from Middle High German gīlære ‘beggar, vagrant’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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