When David Mark Dyches was born on 3 November 1921, in Scipio, Millard, Utah, United States, his father, Milo T Dyches, was 33 and his mother, Winnifred Emma Wasden, was 30. He married Verna Catharine Olsen on 20 March 1944, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. He immigrated to San Francisco, California, United States in 1944 and lived in Monroe, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1930 and Monroe Election Precinct, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 14 April 2008, in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Monroe, Sevier, Utah, United States.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
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.
Altered form of English Dykes .
Possibly also an Americanized form of Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Daykhes: metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Daykhe, of uncertain origin, + Yiddish possessive -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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