Lorraine Irene Long

Brief Life History of Lorraine Irene

When Lorraine Irene Long was born on 22 May 1922, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Vay Ray Long, was 30 and her mother, Catherine Marie Hartgenbush, was 26. She married Leo Henry Donabedian on 16 November 1938, in Salem, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. She lived in Waterloo, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 20 October 1994, at the age of 72.

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Leo Henry Donabedian
1913–1979
Lorraine Irene Long
1922–1994
Marriage: 16 November 1938

Sources (3)

  • Lorraine I Long in household of Vay R Long, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Lorraine Irene Long, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
  • Lorraine Irene Donn, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1925 · The Goodman Theatre

The Goodman Theatre was founded as a tribute to the Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, who died in the Great Influenza Pandemic in 1918. The theater was funded by his parents, who donated $250,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago. The first theater was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw and its opening ceremony was performed on October 20. 

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .

Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).

German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.

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

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