Brief Life History of Catherine Joyce
When Catherine Joyce Wood was born on 15 December 1925, her father, Karl Pitman Wood, was 24 and her mother, Hattie K Cousins, was 18. She married Dana Elliott Hughes on 21 August 1946, in Virginia Beach, Princess Anne, Virginia, United States. She died on 2 January 1963, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Rosewood Memorial Park, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States.
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- Joyce Wood, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
- Joyce Wood Hughes, "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987"
- Joyce Katherine Wood in entry for Lloyd Wayne Hughes and Judy Rose Baker, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as French Bois and Polish Les .
English: in a few cases, a nickname for an eccentric or perhaps a violent person, from Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd).
Americanized form of French Gadbois .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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