Brief Life History of Luella “Lu”
When Luella “Lu” Robke was born on 15 April 1939, in Illinois, United States, her father, Fred Roebke, was 34 and her mother, Veronika Fronie Leonard, was 29. She lived in Germantown, Clinton, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Germantown Township, Clinton, Illinois, United States in 1950. She died on 16 June 2014, at the age of 75, and was buried in St Dominic and St Augustine Catholic Cemetery, Breese, Clinton, Illinois, United States.
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Sources (3)
- Luella Robke, "United States Census, 1940"
- Luella Robke Thien, "Find a Grave Index"
- Loualla Rupke, "United States Census, 1950"
Parents and Siblings
World Events (8)
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1942
On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.
1960
Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Robey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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