Brief Life History of Dorothy Anne
Dorothy Anne Messer was born on 20 October 1959, in Galena, Cherokee, Kansas, United States as the daughter of George Messer and Neoma Ann Curl Smith Messer. She died on 12 November 2012, in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Ashes Farm, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Dorothy Anne Messer Raynor, "Find A Grave Index"
- Dorothy Anne Raynor, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- Dorothy Raynor in entry for Mr Earl G Fulmer, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
Spouse and Children
1962–2015 Male
1959–2012 Female
Parents and Siblings
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– Female
Siblings (1)
1959–2012 Female
World Events (3)
1960
Age 1
1973
Age 14
1979
Age 20
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a cutler, from Middle High German mezzer ‘knife’, from Old High German mezzirahs, mezzisahs, a compound of maz ‘food, meat’ + sahs ‘knife, sword’. The Jewish name is from German Messer ‘knife’ or Yiddish meser.
Dutch: occupational name from Middle Dutch messer ‘cutler’, an agent derivative of meste ‘knife’.
German: occupational name for an official in charge of measuring the dues paid in kind by tenants, from an agent derivative of Middle High German mezzen ‘to measure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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