When Marian Weeks was born on 12 April 1918, in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States, her father, Asa David Weeks, was 26 and her mother, Lillie Esther Peterson, was 27. She married Dean Edward Bischoff on 13 October 1939, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She immigrated to World in 1941 and lived in World for about 5 years and Smithfield Election Precinct, Cache, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 2 October 2012, in Orem, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States.
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The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
The Ellen Eccles Theater was originally known as the Capitol Theater and was home to different vaudevilles and operas. The Theater later became solely used for community events and movies. In 1988, popular outcry from the public led to the city of Logan purchasing the theater and a not-for-profit organization was formed to renovate and operate it. Fire destroyed much of the theater's annex in 1990 during a restoration attempt by the city. However, the Theater reopened to a gala performance on January 8, 1993. It is used today for performances of the Utah Festival Opera Company along with the Cache Valley Civic Ballet, Music Theater West, Valley Dance Ensemble, Cache Theater Company, and several Utah State University performing groups.
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.
English: variant of Wicks .
Americanized form of Norwegian and Swedish Vik .
History: This surname was brought to North America independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One of the earliest on record is Leonard Weeks, who emigrated from Somerset, England, to Portsmouth, NH, some time before 1656. — William Weeks, recorded in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, MA, from 1653 onward, was probably a cousin or other relative of the John Wickes mentioned at Wickes .
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Possible Related NamesGreat Grandma Bischoff was a sweetheart. She would always kiss your hand, say nice things, (even if you couldn't understand all of it.) Well I was headed to the Bischoff's family reunion. As I ar …
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