Keith Lyle Harris

Brief Life History of Keith Lyle

When Keith Lyle Harris was born on 11 July 1942, in Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States, his father, Chester Lyle Harris, was 27 and his mother, Melba Alice Ward, was 36. He lived in Caldwell, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada in 2011. He died on 26 June 2011, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Canyon Hill Cemetery, Canyon, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Chester Lyle Harris
1915–1990
Melba Alice Ward
1906–1980
Donna Rae Harris
1936–2019
Vernon Lyle Harris
1941–1941
Keith Lyle Harris
1942–2011

Sources (14)

  • Keith Harris, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Keith Lyle Harris, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
  • Keith Lyle Harris, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1944 · The G.I Bill

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.

1945 · Peace in a Post War World

The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.

1961 · The Twenty-Third Amendment

The Twenty-third Amendment gives the residents in the District of Columbia the right to vote in presidential elections and to give the district electors in the Electoral College.

Name Meaning

English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.

American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).

Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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