Brief Life History of Virginia Trimmer
When Virginia Trimmer Raffensperger was born on 12 October 1929, in Maytown, East Donegal Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Horace E. Raffensperger, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Virginia Trimmer, was 29. She married Ralph Longenecker Musser on 15 August 1948, in Elizabethtown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Elizabethtown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States for about 5 years and Neffsville, Manheim Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 2006. She died on 17 March 2012, in Lititz, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Elizabethtown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Virginia Raffensferger in household of Horace Raffensferger, "United States Census, 1930"
- Virginia Raffensperger Musser, "Find A Grave Index"
- Virginia Musser in entry for Carl T Raffensperger, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment
Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Ravensburger or Ravensberger, a habitational name for someone from Ravensburg in Württemberg, but there are a number of similar surnames, for example Raffenberg, a farm name near Hamm, and Raffsberger.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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