Florenz Catherine Bettels
21 February 1926–3 December 2009 (Age 83)
Germantown, Missouri
The Life of Florenz Catherine
When Florenz Catherine Bettels was born on 21 February 1926, her father, Joseph August Bettels, was 36 and her mother, Mary Rose Kleinsorge, was 28. She lived in Deepwater Township, Henry, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 3 December 2009, at the age of 83.
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Family Time Line
Joseph August Bettels
1889–1975
Mary Rose Kleinsorge
1897–1986
Laura Theresa Bettels
1921–2008
Florenz Catherine Bettels
1926–2009
Robert Anthony Bettels
1932–2017
Parents and Siblings
1889–1975Male
1897–1986Female
siblings
(3)
Laura Theresa Bettels
1921–2008Female
1926–2009Female
Robert Anthony Bettels
1932–2017Male
World Events (8)
1927
Age 1
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1931 · The Bagnell Dam and Lake of the Ozarks
Age 5
The Bagnell Dam on the Osage River was completed in 1931. The dam was built to generate hydroelectric power to the Osage Power Plant. The building of the dam created Lake of the Ozarks, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, and over 1,000 miles of shoreline.
1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War
Age 22
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
Name Meaning
German and Swedish: from the personal name Bertel . The genitive -s is either a patronymic suffix or denotes possession (of a house, for instance).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Sources (1)
- Florence Cathrine Bettels in household of Joseph A Bettels, "United States Census, 1940"
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