Richard Ira VanHoutte

Brief Life History of Richard Ira

Richard Ira VanHoutte was born in 1930. He married Mable M. Mabry on 24 November 1965. He died in 1968, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Saint Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Mishawaka, Penn Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States.

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Richard Ira VanHoutte
1930–1968
Mable M. Mabry
1928–2010
Marriage: 24 November 1965

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    1931

    The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

    1932

    Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

    1941

    Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

    Name Meaning

    One of the most enduringly successful of the Old French personal names introduced into Britain by the Normans. It is of Germanic (Frankish) origin, derived from rīc ‘power’ + hard ‘strong, hardy’. It has enjoyed continuous popularity in England from the Conquest to the present day, influenced by the fact that it was borne by three kings of England, in particular Richard I ( 1157–99 ). He was king for only ten years ( 1189–99 ), most of which he spent in warfare abroad, taking part in the Third Crusade and costing the people of England considerable sums in taxes. Nevertheless, he achieved the status of a folk hero, and was never in England long enough to disappoint popular faith in his goodness and justice. He was also Duke of Aquitaine and Normandy and Count of Anjou, fiefs which he held at a time of maximum English expansion in France. His exploits as a leader of the Third Crusade earned him the nickname ‘Coeur de Lion’ or ‘Lionheart’ and a permanent place in popular imagination, in which he was even more firmly enshrined by Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe ( 1820 ).

    Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.

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