Lula Virginia Winkler

Brief Life History of Lula Virginia

When Lula Virginia Winkler was born on 28 May 1931, in Georgia, United States, her father, Joseph LaFayette Winkler, was 47 and her mother, Sallie Ruth Jackson, was 20. She married Robert Lawrence Curtis on 5 October 1957, in Wayne, North Carolina, United States. She lived in Murray, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1993 and Tennga, Murray, Georgia, United States in 1993. She died on 18 December 1993, in Whitfield, Georgia, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Murray, Georgia, United States.

Photos and Memories (0)

Photos and Memories

Do you know Lula Virginia? Do you have a story about her that you would like to share? Sign In or Create a FREE Account

Family Time Line

Robert Lawrence Curtis
1935–2010
Lula Virginia Winkler
1931–1993
Marriage: 5 October 1957

Sources (7)

  • Virginia Winkler, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Lula V Winkler, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
  • Lula V Winkler, "Georgia Death Index, 1933-1998"

Spouse and Children

World Events (8)

1932

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

1942 · Germans Sink Ships Near St. Simons Island

Lights from homes along the coast of St. Simons Island provided a clear view of the SS Oklahoma for German U-boat Captain Reinhard Hardegen on April 8, 1942. A German torpedo was fired at the SS Oklahoma shortly after midnight. An hour later, a second torpedo was fired at the oil tanker Esso Baton Rouge. Both ships sunk and the attacks left 22 seamen dead. After the incident, residents of the Golden Isles panicked over concern of a German Invasion of the coast and were stringently observant of a nighttime blackout.  

1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Klaus, Otto, Erwin, Hans, Gerhard, Heinz, Hermann, Fritz, Gernot, Helmut, Horst.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who kept a corner shop or one who farmed a corner of land, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a corner, in all these senses being an agent derivative of Winkel 1 ‘corner’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic topographic names or surnames.

Americanized or Germanized form of Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian, Slovak, and Croatian Vinkler , itself a Slavicized form of the German surname (see 1 above).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Possible Related Names

Discover Even More

As a nonprofit, we offer free help to those looking to learn the details of their family story.

Create a FREE Account

Search for Another Deceased Ancestor

Share this with your family and friends.