Brief Life History of Donna
When Donna McLeod was born on 24 January 1940, in Racine, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Paul S Garst, was 28 and her mother, Gertrude Dood, was 21. She died in 2012, in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 72.
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- Donna Fromm, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1941 · The Four Freedoms
President Roosevelt spoke in front of Congress and gave a speech on what Freedoms everyone should be granted. First being the Freedom of Speech. Second, the freedom of Religion, Third, The Freedom from Want, and Fourth, the Freedom from Fear. Being a big deal, FDR didn't just say that all people should have these freedoms because Americans already expected these freedoms.
1941 · Many Wisconsinites Serve in WWII
Nearly 332,000 Wisconsin residents served in the U.S. military during World War II. Nine thousand of these were women.
Name Meaning
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Leòid ‘son of Leòd’, a patronymic from a Gaelic form of Old Norse Liótr ‘ugly’, a common personal name in medieval Norway and Iceland.
History: This is the name of a major Scottish Hebridean clan, associated in particular with Dunvegan on the isle of Skye; also, historically, with the island of Lewis. There are two main branches: the McLeods of Harris and Dunvegan (Sìol Tormoid) and the McLeods of Lewis (Sìol Torcaill). Both branches claim descent from a certain Leòd (Norse: Liótr), who lived in the 13th century. — One prominent bearer of this prominent Scottish name, Alexander McLeod (1774–1833), a Reformed Presbyterian clergyman, author, and editor, emigrated to the US in 1792 from the island of Mull in the Hebrides.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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