When Rodney Charles Hewitt was born on 11 July 1934, in Holly, Oakland, Michigan, United States, his father, Harry Hewitt, was 20 and his mother, Bertha Kenny, was 16. He married Genevieve Marie Stalnaker in Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 7 December 1994, in Orlando, Orange, Florida, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Rock Cemetery, Eldorado, South Branch Township, Crawford, Michigan, United States.
English:
from the Middle English personal name Hewet, Huet, Hughet, Howet, pet forms of Hugh (Middle English Hewe, Hue; see Hugh and compare Hew ). The spelling Hughet stood for both Huet and the synonymous Huget; see Huggett . This surname has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
habitational name from Hewitts in Chelsfield or Hewitts in Willesborough (both Kent), both named from Old English hīewett ‘cutting’, denoting a place where trees had been cut down. Here there lived families called de la Hewatte (1270), de la hewett (1301), and atte Hewete (1338). The name may also be topographic for someone who lived in a newly made clearing in a wood.
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