Judith Ann Keegan

Female28 August 1942–21 September 2011

Brief Life History of Judith Ann

When Judith Ann Keegan was born on 28 August 1942, in Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, United States, her father, Joseph Patrick Keegan, was 33 and her mother, Anna Vivian Ashmore, was 24. She married Marvin Lavern Britton on 6 February 1960, in Union, South Dakota, United States. She died on 21 September 2011, in her hometown, at the age of 69, and was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, United States.

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Marvin Lavern Britton
1939–2016
Judith Ann Keegan
1942–2011
Marriage: 6 February 1960

Sources (8)

  • Judith Ann Keegan, "Iowa, Birth Records, 1921-1942"
  • Judith A Keegan Faux, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Judy Keegan-Faux, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    6 February 1960Union, South Dakota, United States

    • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (1)

    World Events (8)

    1944 · The G.I Bill

    Age 2

    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.

    1945 · Peace in a Post War World

    Age 3

    The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.

    1961 · The Twenty-Third Amendment

    Age 19

    The Twenty-third Amendment gives the residents in the District of Columbia the right to vote in presidential elections and to give the district electors in the Electoral College.

    Name Meaning

    Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Eamonn, Liam, Bridie, Colum, Fintan, Francis Pat, Kieran, Niall.

    Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aodhagáin ‘son of Aodhagán’. Aodhagán is a double diminutive of the old Irish personal name Aodh ‘fire’. See McKay .

    History: Mac Aodhagáin was a learned family in Connacht.

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

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