Elizabeth Karen King

13 November 1923–18 March 1979 (Age 55)
Wisconsin, United States

The Life Summary of Elizabeth Karen

When Elizabeth Karen King was born on 13 November 1923, in Wisconsin, United States, her father, Frank Rosseter King, was 37 and her mother, Ida Lillian Simpson, was 37. She married Raulston Grant Zundel on 20 March 1949. She lived in United States in 1949. She died on 18 March 1979, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Worth, Cook, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Raulston Grant Zundel
1919–1993
Elizabeth Karen King
1923–1979
Marriage: 20 March 1949

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    20 March 1949

    • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

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    World Events (8)

    1925 · Woman's World's Fair
    Age 2
    The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women
    1925 · The Goodman Theatre
    Age 2
    The Goodman Theatre was founded as a tribute to the Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, who died in the Great Influenza Pandemic in 1918. The theater was funded by his parents, who donated $250,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago. The first theater was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw and its opening ceremony was performed on October 20. 
    1941
    Age 18
    Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

    Name Meaning

    English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).

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

    Possible Related Names

    Kingdon
    Chief
    Koenig
    Kings

    Sources (20)

    • Elizabeth King Zundell in household of Raulston G Zundell, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
    • Elizabeth King Zundel in household of Raulston G Zundel, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
    • U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current

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