When Donald Austin Green was born on 30 November 1919, in Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States, his father, Henry Elliott Green, was 21 and his mother, Ila V Dugger, was 22. He married Doris Esther Van Osdol on 12 July 1944, in Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States. He died on 15 March 1972, in Athens, Athens, Ohio, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
English: either a nickname for someone who was fond of dressing in this color (Old English grēne) or was young or immature, or who had played the part of the ‘Green Man’ in the May Day celebrations, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a village green (Middle English grene, a transferred use of the color term). This is one of the most common and widespread of English surnames. In North America it has assimilated cognates from other languages, notably German Grün (see Gruen ) and Dutch Groen ; compare 7 below. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English: alternatively, from a Middle English personal name Grene.
Irish: adopted for Ó hUainín ‘descendant of Uainín’, a personal name from a pet form of uaine ‘green’, see Honan .
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