Brief Life History of Gordon Heber
When Gordon Heber Sears was born on 2 August 1902, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Heber John Sears, was 40 and his mother, Isabelle Farr, was 41. He married Elizabeth Wilson on 7 July 1935, in Milstead, Kent, England, United Kingdom. He lived in District 7, Montgomery, Maryland, United States in 1940 and Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland, United States for about 1 years. He died on 5 May 1977, in La Jolla, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in La Jolla, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.
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- Gordon H Sears, "United States 1950 Census"
- Sears, "Illinois, Cook County Birth Certificates, 1878-1938"
- Gordon Heber Sears, "Maryland, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1905
Last Zulu uprising against British.
1922
Communist Party of South Africa established (after 1953, the South African Communist Party).
Name Meaning
Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair ‘son of Saoghar’, a borrowing in Anglo-Norman Ireland of the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Saher, Seier (Old French Seheri), from ancient Germanic Sigeheri, Sighari, composed of the elements sig‘victory’ + hari, heri ‘army’. See Sayer 5.
English: variant of Sayers .
Americanized form of French (or French Canadian) Cyr and French Saint-Cyr (see St. Cyr ), with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Memories of Grandfather Sears - by grandaughter Anne Christensen (Jacobson)
Today my cousin, Melissa Sears Moore, and I listened to the cassette recording of Grandfather Sears' Memorial Service, held in La Jolla, California in 1977. We had been trying to record it onto a CD …
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