Jay T Furness

Brief Life History of Jay T

When Jay T Furness was born on 14 March 1921, in Teton, Fremont, Idaho, United States, his father, Tobias Furness, was 22 and his mother, Lucy Ricks, was 18. He married Esther Marie Bauerle on 13 March 1944. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Sweet Grass, Montana, United States in 1943. He died on 27 February 2002, in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in West Jefferson Memorial Cemetery, Mud Lake, Jefferson, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jay T Furness
1921–2002
Esther Marie Bauerle
1921–2000
Marriage: 13 March 1944
Jill Furness
1950–2022
Jill Furness
1950–2022
Kent B. Furness
1952–1986

Sources (42)

  • Jay T Furness, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Jay Tobias Furness, "Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
  • Jay T Furness, "United States Social Security Death 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.

1933 · Fort Peck Dam Construction Begins

Construction on the Fort Peck Dam started in 1933. It is the highest of six major dams along the Missouri River. It is located in the northeastern part of Montana near Glasgow and Fort Peck.

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: habitational name from the district on the south coast of Cumbria (formerly in Lancashire), earlier Futharnes, so named from the genitive case (Futhar) of Old Norse Futh, meaning ‘rump’, the name of the peninsula, formerly of an island opposite the southern part of this district + Old Norse nes ‘headland, nose’.

English (of Norman origin): occasionally perhaps a variant of Furneaux (see Furnace 2). The two names were sometimes confused.

Norwegian: old variant of Furnes (and, in North America, probably also an altered form of this), a habitational name from any of various farms, particularly in Møre og Romsdal, named Furnes, from Old Norse fura ‘pine’ + nes ‘headland’.

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

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