Hertha Wilhelmina Wieser

Brief Life History of Hertha Wilhelmina

When Hertha Wilhelmina Wieser was born on 21 December 1920, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Frank Joseph Wieser, was 27 and her mother, Hedwig Anna. Hattie in US Kudert . Kudart in US, was 29. She died on 5 April 2012, in Streamwood, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 91.

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Charles R Peterson
1920–
Hertha Wilhelmina Wieser
1920–2012

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  • Hertha W Wieser Peterson, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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. 

1944 · The G.I Bill

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

Some characteristic forenames: German Aloys, Erwin, Franz, Otto, Alois, Ernst, Heinz, Jochen, Kurt.

German: variant of Wiese .

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

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