When Starley Jasper Fanning Jr. was born on 26 March 1917, in Waverly, Coffey, Kansas, United States, his father, Starley Jasper "Bub" Fanning, was 24 and his mother, Maude Bernice Atchison, was 25. He married Marjorie Jane Casey on 2 August 1942. He lived in El Rito, Rio Arriba, New Mexico, United States in 1935 and Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1940. He died on 23 February 1982, in Aurora, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Colorado, United States.
English: variant of Fenning .
Irish: from Ó Fionnáin ‘descendant of Fionnán’, a diminutive of Finn (see Fannin ). It is also a variant of the name of a Norman family in Munster, otherwise called Panin (a diminutive of Pagan ), Gaelicized as Fainín. The family was located at Fanningstown, formerly Ballyfanning, Limerick. Compare Fagan 2.
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