Donna Deloris Edwards

Brief Life History of Donna Deloris

When Donna Deloris Edwards was born on 27 June 1923, in Oelwein, Fayette, Iowa, United States, her father, Frank Earl Edwards, was 36 and her mother, Myrtle Frances Powers, was 33. She married Louis Natale Leo about 1939. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Fayette, Fayette, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Jefferson Township, Fayette, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 5 May 1988, in Independence, Buchanan, Iowa, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Oelwein, Fayette, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Louis Natale Leo
1920–2004
Donna Deloris Edwards
1923–1988
Marriage: about 1939
Sherrian Lee Leo
1939–1940
Robert John Leo
1942–1973
Rick Allan Leo
1951–1972
Lori Lynn Leo
1958–2011

Sources (8)

  • Donna Les in household of F E Edwards, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Donna Delores Edwards, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
  • Donna D Aliano, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1926 · Iowa becomes a provider of food to the world

Pioneer Hi-Bred International was the leader company experimenting with hybridization of corn and other seeds for agriculture in the world. It helped make different kinds of crop able to grow in harsh conditions so that other parts of the world would be able to farm and become self-sufficient. It was bought out by DuPont in 1999 and has continued to help struggling countries around the world.

1927

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

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English and Welsh: variant of Edward , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also very common among African Americans.

History: One of the earliest American bearers of this very common English surname was William Edwards, the son of Rev. Richard Edwards, a London clergyman in the age of Elizabeth I, who came to New England c. 1640. His descendant Jonathan (1703–58), of East Windsor, CT, was a prominent Congregational clergyman whose New England theology led to the first Great Awakening, a great religious revival.

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

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