Iona Elizabeth Whitehead

Brief Life History of Iona Elizabeth

When Iona Elizabeth Whitehead was born on 30 November 1930, in Shoshone, Lincoln, Idaho, United States, her father, Joseph Yancy Whitehead, was 42 and her mother, Anna Elizabeth Koski, was 39. She married Johnny Franklin McGhee on 12 December 1946, in Gooding, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Gooding, Gooding, Idaho, United States in 1950 and Shoshone, Idaho, United States in 2007. She died on 6 October 2006, in Hagerman, Gooding, Idaho, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Lincoln, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Johnny Franklin McGhee
1924–2017
Iona Elizabeth Whitehead
1930–2006
Marriage: 12 December 1946
Charlotte Loraine McGhee
1948–2007
Dianna Elizabeth McGhee
1952–2014
Brian Eugene McGhee
1958–2016

Sources (20)

  • Iona McGhee, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Iona Elizabeth Whitehead - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Iona Elizabeth Whitehead
  • Iona E Whitehead, "United States Western States Marriage Index"

World Events (8)

1931

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

1932

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

1950

United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.

Name Meaning

English: nickname from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hed ‘head’ (Old English hwīt + hēafod), denoting a person with white or fair hair. Occasionally perhaps from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + hod ‘hood’ (Old English hwīt + hōd).

Irish: adopted by erroneous translation of Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed one’ (see Canavan ), as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ + bán ‘white’.

Americanized form (translation into English) of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt ) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf ).

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

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