Dorothy Anne Messer

Female20 October 1959–12 November 2012

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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Dale Eugene Raynor
1962–2015
Dorothy Anne Messer
1959–2012

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"

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World Events (3)

1960

Age 1

Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.

1973

Age 14

The UK joins the European Economic Community.

1979

Age 20

The Conservative politician Margaret Thatcher becomes prime minister. She begins to introduce free-market policies.

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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