Maxine Luellin King

Brief Life History of Maxine Luellin

When Maxine Luellin King was born on 15 December 1920, in Riverton, Franklin, Nebraska, United States, her father, George King, was 26 and her mother, Laura Lou Ellen Wenzel, was 18. She married Daniel Ned Pethoud on 15 June 1939, in Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States. She lived in Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States for about 20 years. She died on 14 December 2007, in Firth, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Evergreen Home Cemetery, Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States.

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Daniel Ned Pethoud
1919–1980
Maxine Luellin King
1920–2007
Marriage: 15 June 1939

Sources (6)

  • Maxine King, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Maxine L Pethoud, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Maxine L. King Pethoud, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

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

1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights

Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.

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.

Name Meaning

English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.

English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.

Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable (which means ‘king’ in Irish).

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

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