When Arthur Nicholas Decker was born on 5 March 1899, in Belgium, Ozaukee, Wisconsin, United States, his father, John B. Decker, was 45 and his mother, Anna W Pierron, was 38. He lived in Ozaukee, Wisconsin, United States in 1899 and Wisconsin, United States in 1976. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 16 August 1976, in Sheboygan, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Belgium, Ozaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
German: occupational name for a roofer (thatcher, tiler, slater, or shingler) or a carpenter or builder, from an agent derivative of Middle High German decke ‘covering’, a word which was normally used to refer to roofs, but sometimes also to other sorts of covering; modern German Decke still has the twin senses ‘ceiling’ and ‘blanket’.
Dutch: variant of Dekker , cognate with 1 above. Compare De Decker .
English (London): variant of Dicker .
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