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.
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’.
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