When Dorothy M. Dillon was born in 1933, in Williston, Wallette, Dakota Territory, United States, her father, Lloyd Barton Dillon, was 30 and her mother, Inez T. Dillon, was 19. She married George Rex Powell on 9 May 1954, in Multnomah, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Williston, Williams, North Dakota, United States in 1935 and Round Prairie Township, Williams, North Dakota, United States in 1950. She died in December 2015, at the age of 82.
English, Irish, and French: from the Norman French personal name Dillon, arising from the ancient Germanic Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root dil- ‘destroy’).
English: habitational name from Dilwyn in Herefordshire, recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English dīglum, dative plural of dīgle ‘settlement at the shady or secret places’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name, a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.
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