Marita Mae Root

Female25 December 1918–28 May 2018

Brief Life History of Marita Mae

When Marita Mae Root was born on 25 December 1918, in Redwater, McCone, Montana, United States, her father, Irvin Norman Root, was 31 and her mother, Minnie Lucy Jones, was 23. She lived in Adrian, Monroe, Wisconsin, United States in 1930 and Downers Grove, DuPage, Illinois, United States in 2000. She died on 28 May 2018, in Oswego, Kendall, Illinois, United States, at the age of 99, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Sparta, Monroe, Wisconsin, United States.

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Family Time Line

Irvin Norman Root
1887–1937
Minnie Lucy Jones
1895–1987
Marita Mae Root
1918–2018
Wesley James Root
1920–1985
Norman E Root
1922–2008
Lois A Root
1923–2000
Harold Ira Root
1925–2020
Ruth Anne Root
1931–2015

Sources (8)

  • Marita Root in household of Warren Howard, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Marita M. Root, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Marita Root im Eintrag für Norman E Root, „United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014“

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Siblings (6)

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World Events (8)

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

Age 1

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1919

Age 1

Historical Boundaries 1919: McCone, Montana, United States

1944 · The G.I Bill

Age 26

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: perhaps a nickname for a cheerful person, from an unrecorded Middle English rote (Old English rōt) ‘glad, cheerful’.

English: from Middle English rote, route, rotte ‘rote’ (of uncertain origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth), perhaps used for a player of the medieval stringed instrument, a kind of harp or fiddle. Compare Rutter .

English: perhaps a habitational name from Wroot (Lincolnshire), from Old English wrōt ‘snout, spur of land’.

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

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