Brief Life History of Billie May
When Billie May Beebe was born on 8 May 1924, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States, her father, Charles Beebe, was 34 and her mother, Harriet Merrill Eaton, was 26. She married Reed Atwood Beck on 12 January 1942. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 18 July 1992, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Larkin Sunset Gardens Cemetery, Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Billie Beck, "United States 1950 Census"
- M Beck, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Billie Beebe Beck in entry for Reed Atwood Beck, "Utah, World War II Index to Army Veterans of Utah, 1939-1945"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1928 · The Tower Theater
The Tower Theatre is a historic film theater operated by the Salt Lake Film Society. The theater presents independent films and is a venue for the Sundance Film Festival. It also presents classic films on occasional weekends and hosts a movie-rental library for those that want to expand their cinematic knowledge.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
English (Midlands): variant of Beeby 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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