When Mary Kathryn Long was born on 19 July 1930, in Iredell, North Carolina, United States, her father, Thomas Lester Long, was 47 and her mother, Beulah Connelly Knox, was 40. She married Dewey Waldo Lowrance on 30 April 1960, in Iredell, North Carolina, United States. She lived in Fallstown Township, Iredell, North Carolina, United States in 1940 and Barium Springs, Iredell, North Carolina, United States in 1971. She died on 12 July 1986, in Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina, United States.
English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
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