When Caroline Louise Becker was born on 15 January 1924, in Gross Point, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Michael Franciscus Becker, was 29 and her mother, Josephine Schaeffner, was 32. She lived in New Trier Township, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Wilmette, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died on 14 November 2006, at the age of 82, and was buried in Ocean Springs, Jackson, Mississippi, United States.
German and Dutch: occupational name for a baker of bread, or brick and tiles, derived from Middle High German and Middle Dutch backen ‘to bake’. The German surname is also found in France (mainly Lorraine and Alsace).
Danish: occupational name for a baker, from bechere ‘baker’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a baker, from German Bäcker (compare 1 and Backer ) or Yiddish beker ‘baker’.
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