Thelma Estelle Lehmann

Brief Life History of Thelma Estelle

When Thelma Estelle Lehmann was born on 19 September 1915, in Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States, her father, William Louis Lehmann Jr, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Wilheimine Eades, was 28. She died on 2 January 2003, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 87.

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Carol Foster Harris
1917–2011
Thelma Estelle Lehmann
1915–2003

Sources (12)

  • Thelma E Harris, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Lehman, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
  • Thelma Harris in entry for Katherine Louise Lehmann Cook, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"

World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1929 · The Great Depression Arrives

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.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Heinz, Hans, Otto, Erwin, Fritz, Klaus, Gerhard, Arno, Gunter, Juergen, Almut.

German: status name for a feudal tenant or vassal, Middle High German lēheman, lēnman (from lēhen ‘to hold land as a feudal tenant’ + man ‘man’). The tenant held land on loan for the duration of his life in return for rent or service, but was not free to transfer or divide it. See also Lehman .

Jewish (western Ashkenazic): from the personal name Lehmann, perhaps related to Leo 3.

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

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