Brief Life History of Dorothy
When Dorothy Hurst was born on 30 May 1917, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, her father, Hugh Hurst, was 31 and her mother, Melissa Ann Stephenson, was 32. She married Don Mendenhall Handy on 6 June 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940 and Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States in 1950. She died on 10 April 2002, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Sources (21)
- Dorothy Handy, "United States 1950 Census"
- Dorothy Hurst Handy, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"
- Dorathy Hurst, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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World Events (8)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
1918 · Chapman Branch Library
The Chapman Branch Library is a Carnegie library that was built in 1918 and is now is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived near a wood or wooded hill, from Middle English hirst(e), herst(e), hurst(e) (Old English hyrst) or a habitational name from any of the places so called, such as Hurst Green (in Mitton, Lancashire), Hirst (Northumberland), Hurst (Berkshire, Kent, Warwickshire), Hurstpierpoint (Sussex), or Hirst in Longwood (Yorkshire).
Irish: re-Anglicized form of de Horsaigh, the Gaelicized form of the English habitational name Horsey , established in Ireland since the 13th century.
German and Swiss German (also Hürst): topographic name from Middle High German hurst ‘woodland, thicket’; or a habitational name from a place so named in Westphalia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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