When Melvin Leslie Fratzke was born in 1929, in Pierre, Hughes, South Dakota, United States, his father, Charles Henry Fratzke, was 48 and his mother, Myrtle Mae Jones, was 40. He died on 23 January 2012, in De Grey, Hughes, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 83.
Some characteristic forenames: German Alois, Erwin, Sigismund.
German: possibly of Slavic origin or, in northern Germany, a humorous nickname for a glutton, from a diminutive of Middle Low German vrātz, vrās ‘glutton’.
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