Brief Life History of Lois
When Lois Bowcutt was born on 19 August 1919, in Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, her father, Albert Edwin "Bert" Bowcutt, was 34 and her mother, Beatrice Sophia Irving, was 25. She married Donald Frederick Kramer on 25 February 1947, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She immigrated to World in 1945 and lived in Election District 10 Green River, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States in 1940 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1950. She died on 7 January 2013, at the age of 93, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Lois Kramer, "United States 1950 Census"
- Utah, Select Marriage Index, 1887-1985
- Lois Kramer in entry for Beatrice Christina Bowcutt Or Bea Hansen, "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007"
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World Events (8)
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1923 · President Harding visits Utah to get to know the people.
President Warren G. Harding's visited Utah as part of a broader tour of the western United States designed to bring him closer to the people and their conditions. After Speaking at Liberty Park, the president went to the Hotel Utah where he met with President Heber J. Grant and talked to him about the history of the church.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Warwickshire): variant of Balcock, from the Middle English personal name Balcock, a pet form of Bald (usually for Baldwin) + the hypocoristic suffix -cock.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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