Velma Kathryn Norton

Female27 November 1921–4 June 2003

Brief Life History of Velma Kathryn

Velma Kathryn Norton was born on 27 November 1921, in El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States. She lived in United States in 1949 and Hudspeth, Texas, United States in 1950. She died on 4 June 2003, in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in East Lawn Palms Cemetery, Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Smith Def Jennings
1915–2001
Velma Kathryn Norton
1921–2003

Sources (13)

  • Katherine Jennings, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Velma Katherine Chisholm, "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997"
  • Kathryn Jennings, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Age 2

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

1929 · The Great Depression Arrives

Age 8

Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.

1944 · The G.I Bill

Age 23

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

English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .

Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).

Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.

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

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