Brief Life History of Walter Baxter
When Walter Baxter Brooks was born on 27 May 1921, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Walter Kiddle Brooks, was 23 and his mother, Mary Isabella Baxter, was 24. He married Lucile Black on 21 June 1949, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He registered for military service in 1944. He died on 21 January 2007, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Memorial Redwood Mortuary and Cemetery, West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Walter B Brooks, "United States 1950 Census"
- Utah, Select Marriage Index, 1887-1985
- Walter Baxter Brooks, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Brucks .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Moving to Salt Lake City
In the years immediately following World War II, Lucile left her hometown of Tooele, Utah to pursue her dream of becoming a nurse. The youngest of twelve children, she was accompanied by her aging mo …
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