Mary Katherine Lamb

Female9 August 1932–15 December 2014

Brief Life History of Mary Katherine

When Mary Katherine Lamb was born on 9 August 1932, in Cherokee, Kansas, United States, her father, Richard Frank Lamb, was 19 and her mother, Blanche M Easley, was 16. She lived in Galena, Galena, Cherokee, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 15 December 2014, in Lowell, Cherokee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Baxter Springs Cemetery, Baxter Springs, Cherokee, Kansas, United States.

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Richard Frank Lamb
1913–1991
Blanche M Easley
1916–2001
Mary Katherine Lamb
1932–2014

Sources (1)

  • Mary Catherine Lamb, "United States Census, 1940"

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World Events (8)

1935 · The FBI is Established

Age 3

The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.

1938 · Electrification of Rural Kansas

Age 6

Power was supplied to rural Kansas, which had been hit hard by the depression, in March 1938. Many farmers could not afford the $5 hookups for electricity. As a result, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act which provided loans to farmers who wanted electricity. Brown County became the first to receive service.

1954 · Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Age 22

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a U.S. Supreme Court case which ruled racial segregation in public schools as unconstitutional. The unanimous decision was handed down on May 17, 1954. The case was originally filed by the Brown family in Topeka, Kansas.

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English personal name Lamb, a pet form of Lambert .

English: nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, from Middle English lamb, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm .

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of the warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: "The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O'Loan itself.".

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

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