When Willa Lois Roper was born on 24 March 1954, in Lake Havasu City, Mohave, Arizona, United States, her father, Samuel Roper Jr, was 28 and her mother, Lois E Cones, was 25. She died on 14 October 1976, at the age of 22.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): occupational name from Middle English roper(e) ‘maker or seller of rope’. See Roop .
North German (Röper): occupational name for a town crier, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German rōpen ‘to call’.
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