Wayne Bentley Mills

Brief Life History of Wayne Bentley

When Wayne Bentley Mills was born on 10 July 1909, in Lapeer, Lapeer, Michigan, United States, his father, Ernest Bentley Mills, was 30 and his mother, Nellie May Meade, was 28. He married Avis Evelyn McDonald in 1933, in MD of Pincher Creek No. 9, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Rochester, Oakland, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Bellingham City, Whatcom, Washington, United States for about 1 years. He died on 24 December 1997, in Auburn, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Auburn, King, Washington, United States.

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Family Time Line

Wayne Bentley Mills
1909–1997
Avis Evelyn McDonald
1914–1987
Marriage: 1933
Betty Lou Mills
1935–2015
Harry Leroy Mills
1943–2014
Faye Marie Mills
1948–2020

Sources (11)

  • Wayne Mills, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Wayne B Mihhs, "Washington Marriage Index, 1969-2014"
  • Wayne B Mills, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1910 · The BSA is Made

Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.

1920 · The Detroit Wall

The Detroit Wall is a half mile long wall that was constructed to serve as a wall of racial separation as a physical barrier between white and black homeowners in northwest Detroit. Today the wall is mostly gone with only a small portion of it located at a local park.

1932

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .

English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.

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

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