Brief Life History of Dick Otto
When Dick Otto Crawley was born on 30 December 1920, in Sugar City, Madison, Idaho, United States, his father, Thaddeus Otto Crawley, was 25 and his mother, Marion Levina Butt, was 24. He died on 25 December 2005, in Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida, United States, at the age of 84.
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- Dick Otto Crawley in household of Thaddeus Otto Crawley, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Dick Otto Crawley, "Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
- Dick O Crawley, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1941 · Florida Involvement in World War II
Similar to the first World War, Florida's location and temperature served as an ideal location for military training; in fact, Florida would end up having 172 military installations. As a result of World War II growth, Camp Blanding became the fourth largest city in Florida, capable of housing over 55,000 soldiers. Many Floridians sacrificed their lives among other Americans to win the war; it's estimated that about 3,000 U.S. deaths were from Floridian troops.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places called Crawley, for example in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Sussex, and Oxfordshire, named with Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Crowley .
Irish (Louth): in Ireland, this is generally the English name in 1 above, but it may also have been adopted for McCrawley, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Raghallaigh ‘son of Raghallach’, also Anglicized as Magreely.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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