When George C. Witter was born on 4 July 1910, in Rock Creek Township, Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States, his father, Roy Campbell Witter, was 38 and his mother, Hattie Alice Bentley, was 38. He married Virginia Alvenea Martin about 1934, in Jackson, Oregon, United States. He lived in Salina, Saline, Kansas, United States in 1920 and Jacksonville, Jackson, Oregon, United States in 1930. He died on 13 May 1965, in Jackson, Oregon, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Medford, Jackson, Oregon, United States.
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German: from an ancient Germanic personal name, composed of the elements wid(u) ‘wood, forest’ + hari ‘army’.
North German: occupational name for a whitewasher or plasterer, from Middle Low German witten ‘to make white’, or for a coiner, from witten ‘to determine the contents of gold or silver by boiling’.
English (Lancashire and Cheshire): variant of Whitter .
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