Brief Life History of Glen Harold
When Glen Harold Peters was born on 15 November 1926, in Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States, his father, John August Peters, was 21 and his mother, Ruby Ritchie, was 19. He married Wanda Lee Disney on 28 May 1950, in Modesto, Stanislaus, California, United States. He lived in United States in 1949 and Ceres, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1950. He died on 28 June 2011, in Pima, Arizona, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in East Lawn Palms Cemetery, Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States.
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- Glenn H Peters, "United States 1950 Census"
- Glen H Peters, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Glen Herrald Peters, "Oklahoma, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1941 · Comanche Code Talkers
Many Native Americans from Oklahoma were once again employed as code talkers during WWII to create a code impenetrable by enemies. Rather than Choctaw, a Comanche-language code was developed. Several of these men were sent to invade Normandy to send messages. None of the men were killed and the Comanche code was never broken.
1949 · NATO is Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The agreement of the alliance is to help defend each other if attacked by an external country. The last country to enter was Montenegro in 2017.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . This surname (mainly of German origin) is also found in Sweden, Denmark, France (Alsace and Lorraine), and some other European countries. In North America it has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, such as Albanian Pjetraj and Pjetrushi, patronymics from the personal name Pjetër ‘Peter’ and its pet form Pjetrush; see also below and also examples at Peterson .
Irish: Anglicized form (translation) of Gaelic Mac Pheadair ‘son of Peter’.
Americanized form of Dutch and North German Pieters .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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