Brief Life History of Diane Kay
When Diane Kay Dodd was born on 22 November 1959, in Grundy Center, Grundy, Iowa, United States, her father, Byrl Eldon Dodd, was 46 and her mother, Bernice Edna DeGraff, was 41. She lived in Warsaw, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 2006. She died on 9 March 2006, in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Warsaw, Hancock, Illinois, United States.
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- Diane Kay Dodd Dennis, "Find A Grave Index"
- Diane Kay Dennis, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- Diane Kay Dennis, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1960
Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.
1960 · First Historic Site In Illinois
Abraham Lincoln's home is designated the first national historic site in Springfield.
1973
The Sears Tower, located in Chicago, is the tallest building on the North American continent. It was the worlds tallest building from 1973 until 1996. It covers two city blocks and rises one-quarter mile above the ground. The Sears Tower is still the tallest building to the top of the roof (1,450 feet) and has the highest occupied floor (1,431 feet).
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Dodd(e), Dudd(e), Old English Dodd(a), Dudd(a), a name of uncertain origin which remained in fairly widespread and frequent use from Lincolnshire to Devon and from Essex to Lancashire in England until the 14th century.
English: nickname from Middle English dod, a word of uncertain meaning, possibly a ‘lumpish, thickset person’ (compare modern English dialect dod ‘bunch or heap’), or by extension a ‘foolish person’ (compare Middle English dode-mused ‘stupid’), or perhaps a derivative of dodden ‘to shave (the head), to trim (hair)’, hence ‘the hairless or close-cropped one’.
English: possibly a modern variant of Daud or Dowd, the former arising from the Middle English personal name Daud(e), an extended form of Daw , and the latter from the Middle English personal name Doude, perhaps a side-form of either Dodde or of Daude, a pet form of Ralph .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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