Brief Life History of Doris Larea
Doris Larea Walker was born on 9 January 1931, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She married William Don Rappleye on 18 February 1949, in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, United States. She lived in Garfield, Utah, United States in 1949 and Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, United States in 1950. She died on 14 January 1998, in Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Memorial Redwood Mortuary and Cemetery, West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Doris La Rea Rappleye, "United States 1950 Census"
- Doris L Rappleye, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Doris Laree Walker, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1933 · Lone Cedar Tree Monument
The Lone Cedar Tree is a historical monument located near downtown Salt Lake City and was the location of the only tree growing in the valley in 1847, when early pioneers arrived in the valley. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers erected the monument to honor the Mormon heritage and history of Salt Lake City.
1949 · NATO is Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The agreement of the alliance is to help defend each other if attacked by an external country. The last country to enter was Montenegro in 2017.
Name Meaning
English (mainly North and Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English walker, Old English wealcere (an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’), ‘one who trampled cloth in a bath of lye or kneaded it, in order to strengthen it’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker . As a Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, c. 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen County, VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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