Kenneth Robert Nance

Male1 October 1941–14 February 2013

Brief Life History of Kenneth Robert

When Kenneth Robert Nance was born on 1 October 1941, in Mount Carmel, Wabash, Illinois, United States, his father, M J "Jay" Nance, was 26 and his mother, Leona Lee Pike, was 29. He lived in Lakes, South Sudan in 2013. He died on 14 February 2013, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

M J "Jay" Nance
1915–2000
Leona Lee Pike
1912–1995
Kenneth Robert Nance
1941–2013
Gerald Ray Nance
1944–2018

Sources (5)

  • Kenneth R Nance, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Kenneth Robert Or Ken Nance, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • Kenneth Robert Nance, "Find A Grave Index"

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Siblings (2)

World Events (8)

1942

Age 1

On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.

1942 · The Japanese American internment

Age 1

Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.

1960

Age 19

Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of German Nantz .

Cornish: habitational name from any of the places so-named in Lelant, Saint Clement, Illogan, or Saint Martin in Meneage. The placenames derive from Middle Cornish nans ‘valley’.

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

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