Walter Rudolph Bills

Brief Life History of Walter Rudolph

When Walter Rudolph Bills was born on 20 February 1920, in Moore, Butte, Idaho, United States, his father, Ole Bills, was 39 and his mother, Frieda Marie Pruhs, was 26. He married Elsie Mathea Torgerson on 26 January 1942, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. He lived in Hawaii, United States in 2001. He registered for military service in 1943. He died on 17 October 2001, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in South Jordan Cemetery, South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Walter Rudolph Bills
1920–2001
Elsie Mathea Torgerson
1919–2001
Marriage: 26 January 1942
Walter LaRae Bills
1942–2023
Ronald Bills
Jon Kenneth Bills
1947–2013
Gerald Scott Bills
1950–2001
Russell Craig Bills
1952–2024
Ronald Frank Bills
1960–2021

Sources (33)

  • Walter R Bills, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Walter Rudolph Bills, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
  • Walter R. Bills, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1941

Historical Boundaries: 1941: Wichita, Texas, United States

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 (West Midlands): variant of Bill 1 and 2, with, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Dutch: from bijl ‘axe’, used to denote someone who made or used axes.

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

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