Brief Life History of Richard Ernest
When Richard Ernest Dunn was born on 2 February 1938, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, his father, Sherman John Dunn, was 25 and his mother, Charlotte Ruth Meisner, was 19. He married Glenda Joan Laing in 1957, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 1 January 2019, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States.
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- Richard E Dunn, "United States 1950 Census"
- Richard Ernest Dunn, "Find A Grave Index"
- Richard Dunn in entry for Jo Ann Hendricks Holthouser, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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World Events (8)
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1944 · Kentucky Dam is Completed
The Kentucky dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Tennessee River between Livingston and Marshall counties in Kentucky. It was completed August 30,1944.
1960
Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne . This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown .
English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man, from Middle English dun ‘dun, dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).
Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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