Wilbur Lloyd Granger

Brief Life History of Wilbur Lloyd

When Wilbur Lloyd Granger was born on 16 April 1920, in Broken Bow, Custer, Nebraska, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Granger, was 29 and his mother, Myrtle Mae Hoshaw, was 29. He married June Delores France on 6 October 1944, in Palmer, Matanuska-Susitna, Alaska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Cedar Election Precinct, Greeley, Nebraska, United States in 1930 and Center Election Precinct, Greeley, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1940. He died on 22 February 1948, in Palmer, Matanuska-Susitna, Alaska, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Palmer, Matanuska-Susitna, Alaska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Wilbur Lloyd Granger
1920–1948
June Delores France
1924–1971
Marriage: 6 October 1944
Terri Carmel Granger
1944–2020
Dawn Delores Granger
1946–2021

Sources (12)

  • Wilber Grainger in household of Ben Grainger, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Wilber Lloyd Granger - Church record: birth: 1920; Broken Bow, Custer, Nebraska, United States
  • Wilber Lloyd Granger, "Washington, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"

World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights

Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a farm bailiff, responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This official had the Anglo-Norman French title grainger, Old French grangier, from Late Latin granicarius, a derivative of granica ‘granary’ (see Grange ).

French: from Old French grangier (see 1 above), an occupational name for an owner of a granary or a status name for a tenant farmer, a sharecropper.

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

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