When Lillie Offer was born on 23 January 1890, in Saltillo, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, her father, Wilhelm Offer, was 31 and her mother, Hannah Wissel, was 26. She lived in Roca, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States in 1900. She died in September 1978, in Campbell, Franklin, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Campbell, Franklin, Nebraska, United States.
English (of Norman origin): occupational name from Middle English orfrer ‘maker of orphrey or gold embroidery’, from Old French orfreis, medieval Latin aufrisium, a modification of Late Latin auriphyrigium ‘Phrygian gold’ (the Phrygians being famed in antiquity for their gold embroidery). Compare Officer .
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a goldsmith, from Old French orfevre ‘goldsmith’ (from Latin aurifaber, from aurum ‘gold’ + faber ‘maker’). Compare French Fèvre (see Lefevre ).
German: variant of Off .
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