When Mary Alice Hester was born on 15 August 1911, in Garvin, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Thomas B Hester, was 40 and her mother, Alice Lucy Champion, was 17. She lived in Justice Precinct 6, Hunt, Texas, United States in 1930 and Justice Precinct 8, Hopkins, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 1 August 1989, in Bexar, Texas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Castroville Community Cemetery, Castroville, Medina, Texas, United States.
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Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Satilla was the first Deepwater Steamship to arrive at the port of Houston. This accomplishment successfully established a steamboat service between Houston and New York City.
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous beech tree, Middle Low German hēster, Middle High German heister ‘young tree (especially beech or oak)’. Compare Heister .
English: variant of Easter with prosthetic H-.
Irish (Mayo and Roscommon): possibly a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOistir ‘descendant of Oistir’, a personal name of unexplained etymology. However, without any early bearers in Gaelic sources, it may simply be the English name in Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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