When Doris May Reitz was born on 6 September 1915, in British Columbia, Canada, her father, William Webster Reitz, was 40 and her mother, Lizzie C. Howard, was 41. She died on 24 November 2012, in her hometown, at the age of 97.
German: habitational name from a place near Stolpe in Pomerania called Reitz.
German: from a late medieval pet form of the personal name Richard or Heinrich (see Henry ).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish female personal name Raytse, of ancient Germanic origin.
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