When Florence Nora Poggemiller was born on 18 January 1920, in Des Moines, Iowa, United States, her father, Charles Henry Poggemiller, was 30 and her mother, Jessie Florence Houston, was 24. She married Cleo Earl Croson on 19 April 1939, in Lee, Iowa, United States. She lived in Pleasant Grove, Des Moines, Iowa, United States in 1930 and Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died in 1960, in Des Moines, Iowa, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Columbus City Cemetery, Columbus City, Louisa, Iowa, United States.
Medieval form of the Latin masculine name Florentius (a derivative of florens ‘blossoming, flourishing’) and its feminine form Florentia. In the Middle Ages the name was commonly borne by men (as, for example, the historian Florence of Worcester), but it is now exclusively a girl's name. This was revived in the second half of the 19th century, being given in honour of Florence Nightingale ( 1820–1910 ), the founder of modern nursing, who organized a group of nurses to serve in the Crimean War. She herself received the name because she was born in the Italian city of Florence (Latin Florentia, Italian Firenze).
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