When Kenneth Edward Stauffer was born on 11 October 1911, in Grenola, Elk, Kansas, United States, his father, Edward Jacob Stauffer, was 28 and his mother, Bertha Lillian Schul, was 21. He had at least 1 son with Vera Roberta Barnard. He lived in Greenfield Township, Elk, Kansas, United States for about 10 years and Moline, Elk, Kansas, United States in 1940. He died on 7 October 2002, in Emporia, Lyon, Kansas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Lyon, Kansas, United States.
South German:
occupational name for a maker or seller of beakers or mugs, from an agent derivative of Middle High German stouf ‘beaker, stoup’.
habitational name for someone from any of various minor places called with this word, for example Stauf, Staufen; the reference is to hills thought to resemble a beaker in shape. Compare Stouffer .
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