When Lora Belle Packard was born on 24 September 1870, in Augusta, Kennebec, Maine, United States, her father, John Hawkes Packard, was 44 and her mother, Olive Sylvina Cony, was 43. She married Manley Wentworth Saunders on 14 December 1904. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She died on 4 May 1965, in Augusta, Kennebec, Maine, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Kling Cemetery, Augusta, Kennebec, Maine, United States.
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English: from Middle English pak(e) ‘pack, bundle’ + the Anglo-Norman French pejorative suffix -ard, probably a derogatory occupational name for a peddler.
English: pejorative derivative of the Middle English personal name Pack .
Probably also an Americanized form of German Packert, Päckert, from ancient Germanic personal names formed with a word meaning ‘battle’ or ‘to fight’; or a variant of Packer 2 (with excrescent -t).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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