Brief Life History of Dorothy Alma
When Dorothy Alma Robertson was born on 31 December 1933, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, her father, Carl Victor Robertson, was 38 and her mother, Maude Irene McLean, was 35. She married Joseph Earl Burkeen on 23 June 1951, in Steuben, Indiana, United States. She lived in Detroit Ward 20, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 1 August 1999, in Canton, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in United Memorial Gardens, Superior Township, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States.
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- Dorothy A Robertson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Dorothy Alma Burkeen, "Find A Grave Index"
- Dorothy Robertson in entry for Joe Burkeen, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
1943 · The Detroit Race Riots
The 1943 Detroit Race Riot started on the evening of June 20 and lasted through June 22. It occurred in a period of dramatic social tensions associated with the military buildup of World War II, as Detroit's automotive industry was converted to the war effort. What fueled the fire the most was the arrival of nearly 400,000 migrants, both African-American and White Southerners, and the competition for space and jobs. It was suppressed after 6,000 federal troops were ordered into the city to restore peace. A total of 34 people were killed, 25 of them African-Americans and most at the hands of white police or National Guardsmen; 433 were wounded, 75 percent of them African-American.
1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment
Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: patronymic from the Middle English, Norman French, and Older Scots personal name Robert + -son. This surname is especially common in Scotland, where Robert was a popular personal name and the name of three kings of Scotland, including Robert the Bruce (1274–1329).
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Robertsson: patronymic from the personal name Robert .
Americanized form of Norwegian and Danish Robertsen, a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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