Kenneth Olen Cruse

Brief Life History of Kenneth Olen

When Kenneth Olen Cruse was born on 21 January 1924, in Cherryvale, Montgomery, Kansas, United States, his father, Harry Olen Cruse, was 37 and his mother, Rilla Etta Kinman, was 36. He married Betty Cleone Peterson on 16 February 1946, in Coffeyville, Montgomery, Kansas, United States. He lived in Coffeyville, Montgomery, Kansas, United States in 1930 and Burbank, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He died on 24 October 1995, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Dennis, Labette, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Kenneth Olen Cruse
1924–1995
Betty Cleone Peterson
1927–1991
Marriage: 16 February 1946

Sources (9)

  • Kenneth O Cruse, "United States Census, 1950"
  • Kenneth, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Kenneth Olen Cruse, "Kansas, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

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World Events (8)

1927

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

1941 · Comanche Code Talkers

Many Native Americans from Oklahoma were once again employed as code talkers during WWII to create a code impenetrable by enemies. Rather than Choctaw, a Comanche-language code was developed. Several of these men were sent to invade Normandy to send messages. None of the men were killed and the Comanche code was never broken. 

1943 · Oklahoma is Home to Thousands of POW's

Oklahoma was home to 22,000 German and Italian prisoners of war. The prisoners were sent to work on farms and ranches to continue the production work as many American men were off at war. 

Name Meaning

English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name probably from an unidentified place in Normandy named with Old French crues, crus, creus ‘hollow’. Creuse (in Somme, Picardy) and Cruys-Straëte (formerly in Flanders, now in the French département of Nord), which have the same etymology, are alternative possibilities but seem less likely on geographical and tenurial grounds.

English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English crus(e) ‘bold, fierce’, although the regular development would be to Crowse (rhyming with house).

North German: variant of Krause .

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

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