Brief Life History of Dorothy Willadene
When Dorothy Willadene Kenyon was born on 14 June 1920, in Herrin, Williamson, Illinois, United States, her father, John Kenyon, was 39 and her mother, Sophia Coward, was 41. She lived in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States in 1940. She died on 15 April 1957, at the age of 36.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Dorthy Kenyon in household of Jack Kenyon, "United States Census, 1940"
- Dorothy Willadene Johnson, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
Parents and Siblings
Siblings (7)
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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.
1925 · Woman's World's Fair
The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place near Warrington, which is of uncertain etymology. There was formerly an ancient burial mound there and Ekwall has speculated that the name is a shortened form of a British name composed of the elements crūc ‘mound’ + a personal name cognate with Welsh Einion (see Eynon ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinín ‘son of Coinín’, a byname based on a diminutive of cano ‘wolf’, also Anglicized as Canning and Cunneen . The similarity to the borrowed word coinín ‘coney, rabbit’ has sometimes caused this name to be Anglicized as Rabbitt .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhinghin, ‘son of Finghen’, a personal name meaning ‘fair-born’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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