Dorothy May Peterson

Female17 June 1922–31 May 2005

Brief Life History of Dorothy May

When Dorothy May Peterson was born on 17 June 1922, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Harold Winsor Peterson, was 31 and her mother, Helen Sofia Voght, was 29. She lived in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States for about 75 years. She died on 31 May 2005, in Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

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Harold Alfred Strassell
1923–2008
Dorothy May Peterson
1922–2005

Sources (8)

  • Dorothy M Strassel, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Dorothy May Peterson, "Massachusetts, Births, 1636-1924"
  • Dorothy Peterson Strassel in entry for Mr Harold Strassel, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Age 1

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

1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights

Age 1

Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.

1944 · The G.I Bill

Age 22

The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).

Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.

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

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