Evelyn Louise Dyer

Female25 December 1920–14 January 1999

Brief Life History of Evelyn Louise

When Evelyn Louise Dyer was born on 25 December 1920, in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States, her father, Louis Walls Dyer, was 19 and her mother, Ruth Louise Slate, was 18. She married Clyde Halcom Plunkett in 1940, in Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Round Rock, Williamson, Texas, United States in 1999. She died on 14 January 1999, in Travis, Texas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Cook, Cooke, Texas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Clyde Halcom Plunkett
1889–
Evelyn Louise Dyer
1920–1999
Marriage: 1940
Paula Ann Plunkett
1943–2011
Donna Louise Plunkett
1947–1979

Sources (5)

  • Evelyn Louise Dyer, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
  • Evelyn Louise Dyer Plunkett, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • Evelyn Louise Dyer in entry for William Louis Plunkett, "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1940Texas, United States
  • Children (2)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (4)

    World Events (8)

    1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

    Age 3

    Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

    1929 · The Great Depression Arrives

    Age 9

    Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.

    1941

    Age 21

    Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

    Name Meaning

    English: occupational name for a dyer of cloth, from Middle English deier, degher ‘dyer’ (Old English dēag ‘dye’; the verb is a back-formation from the agent noun). Compare Dexter . The name is typical of southern England. In the Midlands Dexter is the more common equivalent and in northern England Lister .

    Irish (Sligo and Antrim): variant of Dwyer .

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

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