When Donald Dean Penton was born on 14 April 1922, in Red Wing, Goodhue, Minnesota, United States, his father, Paul Leslie Penton, was 28 and his mother, Hildred LaVerne Cox, was 18. He married Pearl Lahetta Hilyard about 1944, in Knox, Knox, Illinois, United States. He lived in United States in 1949 and Edna Township, Cass, Iowa, United States in 1950. He died on 31 December 1985, in Cumberland, Cass, Iowa, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Victoria Cemetery, Victoria Township, Cass, Iowa, United States.
English (mainly Hampshire):
habitational name from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hanmpshire), or from a shortened form of Pennington 2. The placenames denoted a farm or estate for which a penny tax was payable (Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn).
in north-west England, a shortened form of Pennington 1, from either of the places called Pennington in Lancashire.
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