Jimmy Bob Brand

Brief Life History of Jimmy Bob

When Jimmy Bob Brand was born on 3 September 1929, in Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, United States, his father, Paul Samuel Brand, was 25 and his mother, Pearl Robertson, was 24. He married Wanda Earlene Holcomb on 4 September 1954, in Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, United States. He died on 2 September 2000, at the age of 70, and was buried in Sulphur, Murray, Oklahoma, United States.

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Jimmy Bob Brand
1929–2000
Wanda Earlene Holcomb
1932–2015
Marriage: 4 September 1954

Sources (9)

  • Jimmie Kelton in household of Jess Robinson, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Jess Robertson Brand, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
  • Jimmy B Brand, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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1931

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

1941 · Comanche Code Talkers

Many Native Americans from Oklahoma were once again employed as code talkers during WWII to create a code impenetrable by enemies. Rather than Choctaw, a Comanche-language code was developed. Several of these men were sent to invade Normandy to send messages. None of the men were killed and the Comanche code was never broken. 

1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, North German, Scandinavian, Dutch, and French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine): from the ancient Germanic personal name Brando, Old Norse Brandr, a short form of various compound names containing the element brand ‘sword’ (a derivative of brinnan ‘to flash’), of which the best known is Hildebrand . There is placename evidence for Brant(a) as an Old English personal name; however, the Middle English personal name Brand was probably introduced to England from Old Norse.

German: variant of Brandt 1 and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.

Swedish and Danish: ornamental name or nickname from brand ‘fire’.

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

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