When Mary Inez Fell was born on 16 June 1911, in Florida, United States, her father, Stephen Walton Fell, was 23 and her mother, Flossie A Sweeney, was 20. She married William Melvin Strange on 9 April 1931, in Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Escambia, Florida, United States for about 10 years and Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, United States in 1940. She died on 3 April 1993, at the age of 81, and was buried in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, United States.
English (mainly northern): from northern Middle English fel(l) ‘fell, hill, mountain’ (Old Norse fell, fjall), a topographic name denoting someone who lived on a fell, or an area of high ground.
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a furrier, a dealer in hides or skins, from Middle English fel, Middle High German vel, German Fell or Yiddish fel, all of which mean ‘skin, hide’, or ‘pelt’. Yiddish fel refers to untanned hide, in contrast to pelts ‘tanned hide’ (see Pilcher ).
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