Charlyne Smith

Female6 April 1931–17 March 2015

Brief Life History of Charlyne

When Charlyne Smith was born on 6 April 1931, in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, her father, Charles Edward Smith, was 38 and her mother, Winnie Viola Davis, was 31. She married Clifford Stanley Hellekson on 11 June 1955, in Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, United States. She lived in Justice Precinct 1, Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, United States in 1940 and Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, United States in 1950. She died on 17 March 2015, in Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Antlers, Pushmataha, Oklahoma, United States.

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Clifford Stanley Hellekson
1926–2009
Charlyne Smith
1931–2015
Marriage: 11 June 1955

Sources (5)

  • Charlyne Smith, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Charlyne Smith, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
  • Charlyne Smith Hellekson, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    11 June 1955Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, United States
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1932

    Age 1

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

    1941 · Comanche Code Talkers

    Age 10

    Many Native Americans from Oklahoma were once again employed as code talkers during WWII to create a code impenetrable by enemies. Rather than Choctaw, a Comanche-language code was developed. Several of these men were sent to invade Normandy to send messages. None of the men were killed and the Comanche code was never broken. 

    1954 · Right to Serve on Juries

    Age 23

    In 1954, women finally won the right to serve on juries.

    Name Meaning

    English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal, especially iron, such as a blacksmith or farrier, from Middle English smith ‘smith’ (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Early examples are also found in the Latin form Faber . Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is also the most frequent of all surnames in the US. It is very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). This surname (in any of the two possible English senses; see also below) is also found in Haiti. See also Smither .

    English: from Middle English smithe ‘smithy, forge’ (Old English smiththe). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a blacksmith's shop, occupational, for someone who worked in one, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Smitha in King's Nympton (Devon). Compare Smithey .

    Irish and Scottish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac Gobhann, Irish Mac Gabhann ‘son of the smith’. See McGowan .

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

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