When Jessie Louise Bracken was born on 10 February 1923, in Edna, Labette, Kansas, United States, her father, Clem Patterson Bracken, was 38 and her mother, Julia Ethel Roelofsz, was 38. She married Harold Raymond Hugo on 24 April 1940, in Oswego, Labette, Kansas, United States. She lived in Elm Grove Township, Labette, Kansas, United States in 1930 and Canada Township, Labette, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 1 June 2002, in Parsons, Labette, Kansas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Parsons, Labette, Kansas, United States.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
The flag of the State of Kansas was adopted on September 24, 1927. The flag was designed by Hazel Avery in 1925.
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Breacáin ‘descendant of Breacán’, a personal name from a diminutive of breac ‘speckled, spotted’, which was borne by a 6th-century Christian saint who lived at Ballyconnel, County Cavan, and was famous as a healer; Saint Bricin's Military Hospital, Dublin is named in his honor.
Irish: from Ó Bragáin, see Bragan .
English: topographic name from Middle English braken ‘bracken’ (from Old English bræcen or Old Norse brakni), or a habitational name from a place called with this word, such as Bracken in East Yorkshire, Bracken Fold in Westmorland, or Bracon Ash in Norfolk.
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