Stella Irene Brown

Brief Life History of Stella Irene

When Stella Irene Brown was born on 16 August 1906, in Florida, La Plata, Colorado, United States, her father, Walter Marion Brown, was 32 and her mother, Aver Christina Graves, was 21. She married Alfred R Kratzer on 29 June 1935, in Mancos, Montezuma, Colorado, United States. She lived in New Castle, Garfield, Colorado, United States in 1920. She died on 9 November 1979, at the age of 73.

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Alfred R Kratzer
1902–
Stella Irene Brown
1906–1979
Marriage: 29 June 1935

Sources (5)

  • Unknown, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Stella Brown, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
  • Stella I. Kratzer in entry for Alfred Reuben Kratzer, "Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951"

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World Events (8)

1907 · Not for profit elections

The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.

1909 · Garden of the Gods Park

In 1879, railroad tycoon, Charles Elliott Perkins bought 240 acres whrere The Garden of the Gods is located, and planned to use it as a summer home. Perkins died in 1907 before he could establish it as a public park. Perkin's children donated the now 480 acres to the city of Colorado Springs, to become a public park.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).

Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .

Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .

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

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