When Bruce Alan Fritz was born on 2 May 1952, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, his father, Harold A Fritz, was 35 and his mother, Esther Julia Barna, was 36. He died on 1 March 2005, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Wadsworth, Medina, Ohio, United States.
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1916–2000 Male
1915–2008 Female
1945–1999 Male
1952–2005 Male
German: from a pet form of the personal name Friedrich . This form of the surname is also found in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, and France (Alsace and Lorraine), and also in central European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Czechia, and Slovakia, where it is more often spelled in the Slavicized form Fric (see below).
Americanized or Germanized form of Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Fric: from the personal name Fric, a pet form, of German origin (see above), of Old Czech and Slovak Fridrich, Slovenian Friderik, Croatian Fridrik, equivalents of German Friedrich .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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