Brief Life History of Dorothy Theresa
When Dorothy Theresa Jistel was born on 11 June 1923, in Cameron, Milam, Texas, United States, her father, Adolph Leo Jistel, was 27 and her mother, Louisa Rosalie Pauler, was 21. She lived in Justice Precinct 7, Milam, Texas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 17 April 2003, in Schulenburg, Fayette, Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Schulenburg, Fayette, Texas, United States.
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- Dorthy Jistel in household of A L Jistel, "United States Census, 1940"
- Dorothy Jistel, "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997"
- Dorothy Kleiber, "Find A Grave Index"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929 · The Great Depression Arrives
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
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
German, North German, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of ground overgrown with thistles, or perhaps a nickname for a ‘prickly’ person, from Middle High German, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch distel ‘thistle’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): probably in most cases an unflattering name bestowed on Jews by non-Jewish government officials in 18th- and 19th-century central Europe.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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