When Benjamin Joseph Dedek was born on 24 September 1917, in Rosenberg, Fort Bend, Texas, United States, his father, Frank William Dedek, was 29 and his mother, Marie Pultar, was 22. He lived in Justice Precinct 2, Fort Bend, Texas, United States in 1920 and Fort Bend, Texas, United States in 1930. He died on 21 November 1970, in Needville, Fort Bend, Texas, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Davis-Greenlawn Cemetery, Rosenberg, Fort Bend, Texas, United States.
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Polish: unexplained.
Dutch (also De Rek): variant of Flemish Derick or Derck .
English: variant of Derrick .
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