MRS RUTH CASTRO

Female23 July 1943–31 May 2003

Brief Life History of RUTH

MRS RUTH CASTRO was born on 23 July 1943, in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico as the daughter of ANDRES MANRIQUEZ and ALICIA VERDUGO. She died on 31 May 2003, in Huntington Park, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 59.

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ANDRES MANRIQUEZ
–
ALICIA VERDUGO
–2003
MRS RUTH CASTRO
1943–2003

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    World Events (3)

    1944 · The G.I Bill

    Age 1

    The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

    1945 · Peace in a Post War World

    Age 2

    The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.

    1946

    Age 3

    Miguel Alemán Valdés presidency. Industrialization, public works, and creation of a new campus for the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México--UNAM).

    Name Meaning

    Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Jorge, Miguel, Francisco, Mario, Pedro, Raul. Portuguese Joao, Paulo, Ligia, Vasco, Wenceslao, Armanda, Fernandes.

    Galician, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): topographic name from castro ‘castle, fortress’ (from Latin castrum ‘fort, Roman walled city’), or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word. See also De Castro .

    Italian and Jewish (from Italy): topographic name for someone who lived by a fortification, from castro ‘fortification’ (see 1 above) or a habitational name for someone from the town of Castro, the center of a Duchy in Lazio (destroyed after its occupation by Papal military forces in 1649). Compare Lo Castro .

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

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