Dorothy Gray

Brief Life History of Dorothy

When Dorothy Gray was born on 24 March 1902, in Stockton, San Joaquin, California, United States, her father, William Latta Gray, was 27 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Beard, was 34. She married Aloysius Joseph Riepl on 9 May 1922, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Portland City Election Precinct 276, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 29 October 1995, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 93.

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Family Time Line

Aloysius Joseph Riepl
1897–1987
Dorothy Gray
1902–1995
Marriage: 9 May 1922
Margaret Ann Riepl
1924–2009

Sources (8)

  • Dorothy G Anderson, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Dorothy Anderson, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Marriage Records, 1906-1968"
  • Dorothy G Edwards, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"

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World Events (8)

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and Irish (especially Eastern Ulster; of Norman origin): habitational name from Graye in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Graec(i)us, meaning ‘Greek’ + the locative suffix -acum. This is probably the chief source of the surname in Britain.

English: nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Middle English grey (Old English grǣg, grēg) ‘gray’. In Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled, gray’, including Mac Giolla Riabhaigh; see McGreevy . In North America, this surname has assimilated names with similar meaning from other languages.

French: habitational name from Gray in Haute-Saône or Le Gray in Seine-Maritime.

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

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