Brief Life History of Donald Dean
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.
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Sources (7)
- Donald D Penton, "United States 1950 Census"
- Donald Penton, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Donald D Penton in household of Charles Cox, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
Spouse and Children
1922–1985 Male
1922–2008 Female
Parents and Siblings
1893–1968 Male
1903–2000 Female
Siblings (5)
1922–1985 Male
1923–1996 Male
1925–2018 Female
1928–2012 Female
1932–1998 Female
World Events (8)
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Age 1
1926 · Iowa becomes a provider of food to the world
Age 4
1941
Age 19
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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