Brief Life History of Rex A
When Rex A Barnard was born on 18 December 1923, in Washington, United States, his father, Paul Gorham Barnard, was 40 and his mother, Olga Sophia Johnson, was 30. He married Gloria Jean Robbins on 4 November 1949, in Washington, United States. He died on 1 September 1998, in Mason, Washington, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Tumwater, Thurston, Washington, United States.
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- Rex Barnard, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
- Rex Barnard, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
- Rex Barnard, "Find A Grave Index"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1940
Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
1944 · The G.I Bill
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.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and French: variant of Bernard and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this. The surname Barnard is very rare in France.
Americanized form of German Bernhard or Bernhardt , and of German, Polish, Czech, and Slovenian Bernard .
History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. John Barnard was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker). Another John Barnard, born in Boston in 1681, was a Congregational clergyman who served as minister of Marblehead, MA, from 1716 to 1770.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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