George Wilburn Lockwood

21 January 1921–5 January 2002 (Age 81)
Lebanon Township, Laclede, Missouri, United States

The Life of George Wilburn

When George Wilburn Lockwood was born on 21 January 1921, in Lebanon Township, Laclede, Missouri, United States, his father, George Dewey Lockwood, was 22 and his mother, Lacy Elizabeth Chastain, was 22. He married Evelyn Lorraine Foster in 1942. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 5 January 2002, in Vacaville, Solano, California, United States, at the age of 80.

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Family Time Line

George Wilburn Lockwood
1921–2002
Evelyn Lorraine Foster
1917–2011
Marriage: 1942
Kitty
–

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
1942
children

(1)

    Kitty

    Female–Female

Parents and Siblings

siblings

(3)

    George Wilburn Lockwood

    Male1921–2002Male

    Dale Lockwood

    Male1922–2011Male

    Leo Lockwood

    Male–Male

World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Age 2

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1931 · The Bagnell Dam and Lake of the Ozarks

Age 10

The Bagnell Dam on the Osage River was completed in 1931. The dam was built to generate hydroelectric power to the Osage Power Plant. The building of the dam created Lake of the Ozarks, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, and over 1,000 miles of shoreline.
1944 · The G.I Bill

Age 23

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 a place in West Yorkshire, probably named in Old English as ‘enclosed wood’, from loc(a) ‘enclosure’ ( see Lock ) + wudu ‘wood’. It seems likely that all present-day bearers of the name descend from a single family which originated in this place. There is another place of the same name in Cleveland, first recorded in 1273 as Locwyt, from Old English loc(a) + Old Norse viðr ‘wood’, ‘brake’, but it is not clear whether it has given rise to a surname.

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

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Sources (3)

  • Mr George W Lockwood, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • George W Or Bill in entry for Dale Lockwood, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • George W Lockwood, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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