When Betty Jane Fritz was born on 19 February 1919, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Roy Stauffer Fritz, was 24 and her mother, Mary Ruth Mowery, was 24. She lived in Drumore, Drumore Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Quarryville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. She died on 24 December 2012, in New Holland, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Annville, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States.
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 .
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