Brief Life History of Betty Jo
When Betty Jo Bowler was born on 15 February 1942, in Stanly, North Carolina, United States, her father, Benjamin Lee Barbee, was 33 and her mother, Elsie Mae Teeter, was 33. She married Billy Cecil Martin on 2 July 1960, in Stanly, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 2 March 2001, in Stanly, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Oakboro, Stanly, North Carolina, United States.
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- Betty Jo Barbee, "North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000"
- Betty Jo Barbee, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Betty Jo Barbee, "Find A Grave Index"
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1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
Name Meaning
English (mainly East Midlands): occupational name from an unrecorded Middle English word boler ‘worker at a bole or lead-mining site’ (Middle English bole ‘bowl’), here denoting a round cavity on top of a high hill, where lead was smelted.
English: occupational name from Middle English bollere, boler, bolour, bulour ‘maker or seller of bowls, dishes, or cups’ (from Old English bolla ‘bowl, drinking vessel’ + the agent suffix -er, and Old French bole, bule ‘bowl’). Medieval bowls were made of wood as well as of earthenware.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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