When Leo ( Boxcar) Kanerva was born in 1915, in Gwinn, Marquette, Michigan, United States, his father, John Kanerva ( Hammasmaki), was 32 and his mother, Hulda Marie Murtomaki, was 28. He died in 1981, at the age of 66.
From a Late Latin personal name, meaning ‘lion’, which was borne by a large number of early Christian saints, most notably Pope Leo the Great ( ?390–461 ).
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