Ruth Neaoma Miller

Brief Life History of Ruth Neaoma

When Ruth Neaoma Miller was born on 1 December 1930, in Minco, Grady, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Earnest William Miller, was 22 and her mother, Ethel Rose Lowery, was 16. She married Elmer William Robison on 3 May 1947, in Reno, Washoe, Nevada, United States. She lived in United States in 1949 and San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1950. She died on 8 July 2011, in Deer Park, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Deer Park, Spokane, Washington, United States.

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Elmer William Robison
1928–1973
Ruth Neaoma Miller
1930–2011
Marriage: 3 May 1947

Sources (9)

  • Ruth N Robinson, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Ruth N Robison, "Washington Death Index, 1965-2014"
  • Ruth Neoma Robison, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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World Events (8)

1931

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

1941 · Comanche Code Talkers

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

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

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English term miller, an agent derivative of mille ‘mill’, reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner ). In southern, western, and central England Millward (literally, ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term. In North America, the surname Miller has absorbed many cognate surnames from other languages, for example German Müller (see Mueller ), Dutch Mulder and Molenaar , French Meunier , Italian Molinaro , Spanish Molinero , Hungarian Molnár (see Molnar ), Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian Mlinar , Polish Młynarz or Młynarczyk (see Mlynarczyk ). Miller (including in the senses below) is the seventh most frequent surname in the US.

South German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Müller ‘miller’ (see Mueller ) and, in North America, also an altered form of this. This form of the surname is also found in other European countries, notably in Poland, Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), and Czechia; compare 3 below.

Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Miler ‘miller’, a surname of German origin.

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

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