Vicki Diane Buckley

Brief Life History of Vicki Diane

When Vicki Diane Buckley was born on 13 April 1943, in Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States, her father, Harvey Louis Buckley, was 31 and her mother, Dorothy Jane Smart, was 28. She lived in United States in 1949. She died on 31 December 1981, in Chadron, Dawes, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harvey Louis Buckley
1911–1991
Dorothy Jane Smart
1915–1968
Vicki Diane Buckley
1943–1981
Jane Elizabeth Buckley
1952–1999

Sources (4)

  • Vicki D Buckley, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Vicki Diane Buckley Bosch, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Vicki Bosch in entry for Harvey L Buckley, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

World Events (8)

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.

1944 · Congress Passes the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Project

The Flood Control Act of 1944 was passed and would later be called the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program. It was named after the authors of the program Lewis A. Pick and William Glenn Sloan. It began as two separate plans but they both had the idea for an irrigation system that would help with the flooding of the Missouri River.

1954 · Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

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: habitational name from any of the many places so named, most of which are from Old English bucc ‘buck, male deer’ or bucca ‘he-goat’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Places called Buckley and Buckleigh, in Devon, are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’.

English: in Somerset perhaps alternatively, a variant of the now extinct Bugley, a habitational name from Bugley in Dorset or Wiltshire, named from the Old English female personal name Bucge + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buachalla ‘descendant of Buachaill’, a byname meaning ‘cowherd, servant’.

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

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