Phyllis Gail Mansfield

Female19 December 1917–10 July 2008

Brief Life History of Phyllis Gail

When Phyllis Gail Mansfield was born on 19 December 1917, in Crescent City, Del Norte, California, United States, her father, Charles Roland Mansfield, was 23 and her mother, Leah Delcie Holcomb, was 16. She married Duane Royce Walker on 21 March 1936, in Curry, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Crescent Judicial Township, Del Norte, California, United States for about 30 years. She died on 10 July 2008, in Crescent City, Del Norte, California, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Crescent City, Del Norte, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Duane Royce Walker
1916–1986
Phyllis Gail Mansfield
1917–2008
Marriage: 21 March 1936
Duane Aurel Walker Sr
1939–2009
Gale Royce Walker
1950–2016

Sources (10)

  • Phyllis G Walker, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Phyllis G Mansfield, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995"
  • Phyllis Gail Mansfield Walker, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    21 March 1936Curry, Oregon, United States
  • Children (2)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

    Age 1

    To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

    1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary

    Age 17

    Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963. 

    1941

    Age 24

    Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from a place so named in Nottinghamshire. The placename means ‘open land by the river Maun’, from the river name Maun (which may take its name from a hill named with Old English mamme ‘teat’) + Old English feld ‘open country’.

    Irish (Waterford): when not an importation of 1, this is an altered form of the Norman name de Manville (see Mandeville 3).

    Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Mansfeld, a habitational name from a place so called in Saxony.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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