Mildred Louise Shelite

Brief Life History of Mildred Louise

When Mildred Louise Shelite was born on 8 January 1925, in Capron, Woods, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Henry Rudolph Shelite, was 31 and her mother, Myrtle Shurts, was 29. She lived in Lawn Township, Harper, Kansas, United States in 1940 and Sharon Township, Barber, Kansas, United States in 1950. She died on 31 July 1978, in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Capron, Woods, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

Frances Fay Myers
1923–1992
Mildred Louise Shelite
1925–1978

Sources (4)

  • Mildred Shelite, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Mildred Tate in entry for Velma May Haas, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • Mildred Shelite in household of Henry Shelite, "United States Census, 1940"

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World Events (8)

1927

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

1927 · Kansas Adopts a Flag

The flag of the State of Kansas was adopted on September 24, 1927. The flag was designed by Hazel Avery in 1925.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

Probably an Americanized form of German Schielein, a variant of Schühlein, a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker, from Middle High German scuoch ‘shoe’ + the diminutive suffix līn.

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

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