Brief Life History of Roy Erwin
When Roy Erwin Babbel was born on 4 May 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Frederick August Babbel, was 23 and his mother, Lena Lamprecht, was 19. He married Rhoda Mae Welker on 22 March 1939, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949. He died on 7 March 2005, in Twin Falls, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery, Twin Falls, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States.
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- Roy Erwin Babbell, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Babbel, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- Roy Erwin Babbel, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1915 · Dinosaur National Monument
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Eberhard, Gerda, Klaus, Otto.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German or Polish Babel ‘Babylon’ (which was named with the Assyrian elements bāb ‘gate’ + ilu ‘god’). The Jewish people were held in captivity in Babylon from 597 to about 538 BC , and the name was sometimes adopted with reference to being an oppressed minority in a foreign culture.
German: from a variant of the personal name Babo, a name developed from baby talk, also a pet form of Paul .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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