Derrel Milton Francis

Male31 July 1923–1 December 2003

Brief Life History of Derrel Milton

When Derrel Milton Francis was born on 31 July 1923, in Rutledge, Scotland, Missouri, United States, his father, William Preston Francis, was 25 and his mother, Lotti Ethel Tull, was 22. He lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1950. He died on 1 December 2003, in Vacaville, Solano, California, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Alpine Cemetery, Alpine, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Preston Francis
1897–1974
Lotti Ethel Tull
1900–1992
Ardene Winifred Francis
1921–1960
Derrel Milton Francis
1923–2003

Sources (10)

  • Derrel M Francis, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Derrel Milton Francis - Memory of Someone: birth: 31 July 1923; Rutledge, Scotland, Missouri, United States
  • Derrel Milton Francis, "Illinois, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (2)

World Events (8)

1925 · The Goodman Theatre

Age 2

The Goodman Theatre was founded as a tribute to the Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, who died in the Great Influenza Pandemic in 1918. The theater was funded by his parents, who donated $250,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago. The first theater was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw and its opening ceremony was performed on October 20. 

1927

Age 4

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1944 · The G.I Bill

Age 21

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: from the Old French personal name Franceis, modern French François, from Latin Franciscus, originally ‘Frank’, though later used to denote a Frenchman. The personal name owed much of its popularity during the Middle Ages to the fame of Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), whose baptismal name was actually Giovanni but who was nicknamed Francisco because his father was absent in France at the time of his birth. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Francesco and Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Franc , and also their derivatives, e.g. Croatian Francišković (see Francisco 4).

English: ethnic name from the Old French adjective Franceis ‘French’ (see 1 above).

Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, or an adoption of the non-Jewish surname.

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

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