When Leola Mary Widmer was born on 18 January 1913, in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, her father, Peter Godfred Widmer, was 26 and her mother, Marie Margaret Straus, was 22. She had at least 1 daughter with Harold Wolff. She died on 29 August 1985, in Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 72.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Christoph, Hans, Helmut, Sieg, Armin, Ernst, Hans Peter, Konrad, Othmar, Siegfried, Ute.
German and Swiss German: status name from Middle High German widemer ‘tenant farmer who worked on land that had been endowed to a parish church, Middle High German widem(e) ‘prebend’.
German: variant of Wittmer 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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