Leola Goates

Brief Life History of Leola

When Leola Goates was born on 29 November 1912, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, William Goates, was 31 and her mother, Ethel Stanley Thomas, was 30. She married Stewart Albert Durrant on 25 May 1934, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Monroe, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 8 April 2007, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Stewart Albert Durrant
1912–2008
Leola Goates
1912–2007
Marriage: 25 May 1934

Sources (39)

  • Leola Durrant, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Leola Goates, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
  • Leola Goates, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

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World Events (8)

1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment

The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

1921 · Lehi Becomes First to Build In Honor of World War Veterans

A “Soldier’s, Sailor’s and Marine’s Memorial” was conceived by W. A. Knight in 1918 to honor Utah residents killed during World War I. A library was dedicated on December 30, 1921.The remainder of the building was dedicated May 31, 1926. The Spanish Mission Revival style building cost $55,000 to build. This became “the first municipal facility in America erected to the memory of World War I Veterans.” 

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 Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.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

English: variant of Goate with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s, from Middle English gote, occasionally got(te) ‘watercourse, channel, stream’ (Old English gota), a topographic name denoting someone who lived by a watercourse, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as East Goit (East Yorkshire), Goat Farm in Ringmer (Sussex), or Goat Farm in Streat (Sussex). This element is widely found in minor placenames in northern England, where it survives as dialect gote, goit. Alternatively, Goate may derive from Middle English got(e) ‘goat’ (Old English gāt), either as an occupational name for someone who looked after goats, or as a nickname for someone who resembled a goat in some way; the animal was associated with lascivious behaviour.

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

Story Highlight

A Lesson I Still Carry With Me

When I was a very young teenager my mother (Leola) was serving as a Bishop's storehouse coordinator. When a person was given a Bishop's order for food and/or other commodities they would bring the ord …

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