Brief Life History of Donald Kenneth
When Dr Donald Kenneth LeDuc was born on 2 May 1920, in Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States, his father, Gaston D Leduc, was 28 and his mother, Ruth Edith Nelson, was 23. He married Betty Jean Surface on 27 March 1985, in Pinellas, Florida, United States. He died on 26 November 1996, in Pinellas, Florida, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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- Donald Leduc in household of Gaston Leduc, "United States Census, 1940"
- Donald Kenneth Leduc, "Florida Marriage Index, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001"
- Donald K Leduc, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1922 · Oldest radio station west of the Mississippi
The Karlowa Radio Corporation, in Davenport, was issued a new license for broadcasting and with it they were randomly assigned call letters of WOC. The small studio was the first to reach the Iowa area and was identified as one of 21 stations that were desirable because of coverage area and performance. In September 1927, WOC became a member of the new NBC radio network and still is today. In 1932, Ronald Reagan got his first broadcasting job at WOC as a sportscaster and he returned in 1988 after his presidency tour. WOC is the oldest surviving broadcasting station in the middle Mississippi Valley and was the first to keep logs on their electrical consumption and their on-air programming.
1931 · The Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Marcel, Gilles, Andre, Emile, Henri, Jacques, Michel, Monique, Pierre, Cecile, Evariste, Alcid.
French; Breton (Le Duc): from the Old French title of rank duc ‘duke’ (from Latin dux ‘leader’, genitive ducis), with the French masculine definite article le, used as a nickname for someone who gave himself airs and graces, or else as a metonymic occupational name for a servant employed in a ducal household. Compare Duke 4 and Laduke .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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