Janet Esther Koch

Female29 October 1924–4 September 2014

Brief Life History of Janet Esther

When Janet Esther Koch was born on 29 October 1924, in Orangeville, Stephenson, Illinois, United States, her father, George August Koch, was 33 and her mother, Ida Kuhl, was 29. She had at least 1 son with Edward Fankhauser. She lived in Stephenson, Illinois, United States in 1935 and Monroe, Green, Wisconsin, United States in 1940. She died on 4 September 2014, in Brodhead, Green, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Brooklyn, Green, Wisconsin, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edward Fankhauser
1918–1984
Janet Esther Koch
1924–2014
David Frederick Fankhauser
1955–2012

Sources (4)

  • Janet A Koch in household of George A Koch, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Janet Koch Fankhauser, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Janet Esther Koch Fankhauser, "Find A Grave Index"

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Children (1)

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World Events (8)

1925 · Woman's World's Fair

Age 1

The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women

1927

Age 3

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

Age 24

The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Erwin, Klaus, Helmut, Fritz, Heinz, Gerhard, Wolfgang, Ernst, Florian.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German koch, German Koch ‘cook’. The name in this sense is also established in some other European countries, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Denmark.

Czech and Slovak: from Koch, a pet form of Kochan or of any other personal name beginning with Ko-.

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

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