When William Emery Beck Jr. was born on 18 March 1905, in Freeman, Cass, Missouri, United States, his father, William Emre Beck, was 32 and his mother, Ethel C. Williams, was 25. He married Elvira Mara Tilden on 2 July 1926, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. He died on 17 November 1984, in Cave Junction, Josephine, Oregon, United States, at the age of 79.
English: topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from northern Middle English bekke ‘stream’ (Old Norse bekkr).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France named Bec, for example Bec Hellouin in Eure, named with Old Norman French bec ‘stream’, from the same Old Norse root as in 1 above.
English: from the Middle English personal name Becke (Old English Becca or Beocca), of uncertain origin.
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