Melvin Leslie Fratzke

Male1929–23 January 2012

Brief Life History of Melvin Leslie

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.

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Melvin Leslie Fratzke
1929–2012
Phyllis Jean Mattheis
1937–

Sources (4)

  • Melvin L Fratzke in household of Myrtle M Fratzka, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Melvin in entry for Robert A Fratzke, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • Melvin L Fratzke in household of Charles H Fratzke, "United States Census, 1930"

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World Events (8)

1929

Age 0

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

1931

Age 2

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment

Age 22

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

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’.

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

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