When Thelma Irene Sutherland was born on 6 June 1908, in Milton, Umatilla, Oregon, United States, her father, John Franklin Sutherland, was 39 and her mother, Martha Ellen South, was 39. She married Gaylord Myrl Torrey on 25 August 1934, in Walla Walla, Washington, United States. She lived in Election Precinct 25, Umatilla, Oregon, United States in 1930 and Umatilla, Umatilla, Oregon, United States in 1950. She died on 3 May 1994, in Walla Walla, Washington, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States.
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Scottish (Caithness): habitational name from the Scottish county of Sutherland, named with Old Norse súthr ‘south, southern’ + land ‘land’ because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
History: This is the name of a Highland Scottish clan associated with the county of Sutherland.
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