Brief Life History of Melba Ruth
When Melba Ruth Welker was born on 30 September 1949, in Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States, her father, Lloyd Emanuel Welker, was 48 and her mother, Helen Briscoe Thomson, was 30. She lived in United States in 1949. She died on 16 September 1984, in Thatcher, Franklin, Idaho, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Bloomington, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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Sources (18)
- Melba Ruth Wilker, 8, "United States 1950 Census"
- Melba Ruth Welker, "BillionGraves Index"
- Ruth in entry for Delores K or Dody Larsen, "Idaho, Southern Counties Obituaries, 1943-2013"
Parents and Siblings
World Events (8)
1950
United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.
1950 · Start of the Korean War
The Korean War was a civil war between North and South Korea. North Korea had support of China and the Soviet Union while South Korea gained support from the United States. The war broke out as a product of the Cold War because of the different ideologies that each side had for what government is. The fighting stopped when an armistice was signed but no peace treaty was ever established. To some the war is still progressing but it is in a stage of frozen conflict.
1960
Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
German: occupational name for a fuller, from Middle High German, Middle Low German walker, welker ‘fuller’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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