When Frank Laakso was born on 7 November 1931, in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States, his father, Frans Albert Laakso, was 24 and his mother, Sylvia Florence Koski, was 20. He lived in Calumet Township, Houghton, Michigan, United States in 1940 and Redford, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1985. He died on 5 September 1985, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 53.
Some characteristic forenames: Finnish Toini, Eino, Aarre, Arvo, Eero, Jorma, Olavi, Tarja, Tauno, Toivo, Veikko. Scandinavian Erik, Hilma, Nels, Viljo.
Finnish: from laakso ‘valley’, generally an ornamental name adopted during the name conversion movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Often, it was adopted by Finnish bearers of Swedish names containing the Swedish element dal ‘valley’.
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