Brief Life History of Willena
When Willena Hester was born on 25 April 1920, in United States, her father, Luther Hester, was 25 and her mother, Eula Belle Watson, was 26. She married George Earl Stuart on 15 August 1942, in Hardin, Mendocino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Cleburne, Johnson, Texas, United States in 1950 and Cleburne, Arkansas, United States in 2002. She died on 27 August 2002, in Crowley, Tarrant, Texas, United States, at the age of 82.
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- Willena Stewart, "United States Census, 1950"
- Willena Stuart, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Miss Willena Hester, "Texas, Hardin County, Marriage Records, 1837-2009"
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1922 · The First Radio Station WOK Begins Broadcasting
In 1922, Harvey C. Couch Sr. started WOK the first radio station in Arkansas. After a trip to Pittsburgh and the KDKA radio he came up with the idea for Workers of Killowatts (WOK). WOK had no commercials which was nice for the listeners.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous beech tree, Middle Low German hēster, Middle High German heister ‘young tree (especially beech or oak)’. Compare Heister .
English: variant of Easter with prosthetic H-.
Irish (Mayo and Roscommon): possibly a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOistir ‘descendant of Oistir’, a personal name of unexplained etymology. However, without any early bearers in Gaelic sources, it may simply be the English name in Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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