Aimee Ramsey Goerke DuPont

Female17 April 1923–30 March 2003

Brief Life History of Aimee Ramsey Goerke

When Aimee Ramsey Goerke DuPont was born on 17 April 1923, in New York, United States, her father, Edmund DuPont, was 21 and her mother, Aimee Edith Goerke, was 16. She died on 30 March 2003, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 79.

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Family Time Line

Edmund DuPont
1903–
Aimee Edith Goerke
1906–1975
Aimee Ramsey Goerke DuPont
1923–2003

Sources (5)

  • New York, New York, Births, 1910-1965
  • U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current
  • New York, Episcopal Diocese of New York Church Records, 1767-1970

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (1)

World Events (8)

1927

Age 4

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1940

Age 17

Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.

1948 · KING-TV 

Age 25

In 1948, KING-TV was the first TV station not just in Washington, but the whole Pacific Northwest. It is an NBC tv station licensed to Seattle and Tacoma.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Armand, Emile, Jacques, Laurent, Pierre, Adrien, Cecile, Emilien, Gaston, Henri, Alain.

French and Walloon: topographic name for someone ‘from the bridge’, from French pont ‘bridge’ (see Pont ), with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’; or a habitational name for someone from Le Pont, the name of several places in various parts of France and in Belgium (Wallonia).

History: This surname is listed (in the form Du Pont) in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina.

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

Possible Related Names

Story Highlight

adoption of Aimee R G DuPont/Mary Dawn Manning

Quoted from shersperling (Sperling-Smith Tree) on Ancestry.com, added to her Tree 3 Feb 2013: Mary Dawn Manning was born to Aimee Goerke, aged 17 years, on 17 April 1923 in Manhattan NY. Her birth nam …

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