When Edward Prier Worthen was born on 7 June 1924, in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Charles Edward Worthen, was 30 and his mother, Edith May Pryor, was 24. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 28 August 2006, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: topographic name from Old English worthign ‘enclosure, homestead’ or a habitational name from any of several places so named, such as Worthen in Shropshire or Worthing in Norfolk.
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