Wilma Rising was born in 1915. She died in 2006, at the age of 91, and was buried in Mount Crest Abbey Mausoleum, Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States.
Swiss German and South German: variant of Risinger .
Perhaps an Americanized form of German Reising , or from an unexplained stem riese.
English (Norfolk and Suffolk): habitational name from Castle Rising or Woodrising (Norfolk). The placename means either ‘people of a man called Risa’ or ‘people at the brushwood’, from an Old English personal name Risa or Old English hrīs ‘brushwood’ + the groupname suffix -ingas.
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