Brief Life History of Hazel Joy
When Hazel Joy Strange was born on 17 November 1937, in Texas, United States, her father, Earnest Charles Strange, was 33 and her mother, Ollie Rowell, was 24. She married Johnnie Edwin Bice on 23 August 1958, in Texas, United States. She lived in United States in 1949 and Briscoe, Texas, United States in 1950. She died on 26 December 2012, in Lockney, Floyd, Texas, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Silverton Cemetery, Silverton, Briscoe, Texas, United States.
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- Hazel Joy Strange, "United States Census, 1950"
- Hazel Joy Strange, "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997"
- Hazel J Strange, "Texas Marriages, 1966-2010"
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World Events (8)
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1949 · 1950s Texas Drought
One of most intense, costly, and devastating droughts ever recorded in the state of Texas. The entire state was in a state of drought by the summer of 1951. Less than 30-50% of the normal rainfall was received during this period. The state was plagued with dust storms similar to those from the infamous Dust Bowl. The drought ended in a destructive manner throughout 1957; storms, hail, tornadoes, and deadly floods.
1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
Name Meaning
English (Wiltshire and Gloucestershire): nickname for a newcomer to a district, from Middle English strange ‘foreign’ (Old French estrange, Latin extraneus, from extra ‘outside’).
Irish (Antrim): this name is also common in Ireland, where, in addition to its English etymology, it may represent an Anglicized form of any of several Irish names containing the element gall ‘stranger’, e.g. Doyle , Gallagher .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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