Grace G Grabow

Female1 August 1918–26 March 2014

Brief Life History of Grace G

When Grace G Grabow was born on 1 August 1918, in North Dakota, United States, her father, William Frederick Grabow, was 36 and her mother, Lydia Helena Carolina Scharbow, was 25. She lived in Carbondale Township, Ward, North Dakota, United States for about 20 years. She died on 26 March 2014, at the age of 95, and was buried in German Baptist Cemetery, Surrey, Ward, North Dakota, United States.

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Leonard Helmut Elker
1914–1993
Grace G Grabow
1918–2014

Sources (6)

  • Grace Grabow in household of Aug Armstrong, "North Dakota Census, 1925"
  • Grace Grabow Elker, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Grace Elker in entry for Mrs Violet Wilhelmine Emma Maag, "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007"

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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1920

Age 2

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

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

German: habitational name from any of several places called Grabow in Germany or Grabów in Poland, from Lower Sorbian or Polish grab ‘hornbeam’.

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

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