Brief Life History of Richard Leon
When Richard Leon Gross was born on 15 October 1937, his father, Benjamin Orville Gross, was 30 and his mother, Wilma Marie Hopson, was 18. He married Aline Regenia Spears on 25 February 1972, in Wheeler, Texas, United States. He died on 21 May 1984, at the age of 46, and was buried in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Richard L Gross, "Texas Marriages, 1966-2010"
- Richard Gross, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Richard Leon Gross, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1941 · Comanche Code Talkers
Many Native Americans from Oklahoma were once again employed as code talkers during WWII to create a code impenetrable by enemies. Rather than Choctaw, a Comanche-language code was developed. Several of these men were sent to invade Normandy to send messages. None of the men were killed and the Comanche code was never broken.
1950
United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a big man, from Middle High German grōz ‘large, corpulent’, German gross. This surname is also established in some other parts of Europe, most notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia it is also found (in Slovenia almost exclusively) in the Slavicized form Gros (see also 3 below). The Jewish name has been Hebraicized as Gadol .
English: descriptive nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros, grosse, groce ’large; heavy’, also meaning ‘simple, plain’, from Old French gros ‘big, fat’ (from Latin grossus ‘thick’), a word of ancient Germanic origin, thus etymologically the same word as in 1 above.
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian, Polish, Croatian or other Slavic Gros , itself of German origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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