Brief Life History of Geraldine Ann
When Geraldine Ann Groff was born on 10 October 1928, in Waterloo, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States, her father, John Wesley Groff, was 25 and her mother, Ethalyn Frances Kennedy, was 19. She lived in Liscomb Township, Marshall, Iowa, United States in 1950. She died in 2014, at the age of 86, and was buried in North Lawn Cemetery, Fort Dodge, Webster, Iowa, United States.
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- Geraldine A Groff, "United States 1950 Census"
- Geraldine Ann Groff, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
- Geraldine Ann Groff Fletcher, "Find A Grave Index"
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1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1934 · The Grout Museum
The museum started as a private collection given to the city by Henry W. Grout. Today it is still a nonprofit educational museum that helps engage students and all people from the surrounding communities.
1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment
Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Graff .
Americanized form of Hungarian and Slovak Gróf, Czech, Slovenian, and Croatian Grof ‘count’. The surname Groff is also found in Hungary, where it is very rare.
Americanized form of Norwegian Grov: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so called, from Old Norse grǫf ‘hollow, depression’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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