Agnes Marie "Honey" Burns

Brief Life History of Agnes Marie "Honey"

When Agnes Marie "Honey" Burns was born on 1 January 1930, in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William Leo Burns, was 44 and her mother, Margaret Mary Donaghey, was 29. She married Francis J. Novak in 1960, in United States. She died on 12 October 2012, in her hometown, at the age of 82, and was buried in Geistown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Francis J. Novak
1930–2013
Agnes Marie "Honey" Burns
1930–2012
Marriage: 1960

Sources (3)

  • Agnes Mary Burns in household of William Burns, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Agnes Marie Burns Novak, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Agnes Burns in household of William Burns, "United States Census, 1940"

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World Events (8)

1931

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

1932

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins

The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.

Name Meaning

Scottish (central Scotland and northern England): habitational name from any of various places called formerly Burnis, Burnes, or Burnhouse (named with burn- ‘stream’), especially those in Kincardineshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire, and possibly Argyll.

English and Scottish: variant either of Burn , with post-medieval excrescent -s, or of Barnes .

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see Byrne ), with excrescent -s.

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

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