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
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“
Parents and Siblings
1887–1937 Male
1895–1987 Female
Siblings (6)
1918–2018 Female
1920–1985 Male
1922–2008 Male
1923–2000 Female
1925–2020 Male
+1 More Child
World Events (8)
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
Age 1
1919
Age 1
1944 · The G.I Bill
Age 26
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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