Wilma Lucille Dean was born on 28 November 1911, in Hancock, Mississippi, United States as the daughter of Edward E Dean and Emma Smith. She married Ernest Isaac Russ about 1930, in Hancock, Mississippi, United States. She lived in Beat 4, Pearl River, Mississippi, United States in 1940 and Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States in 1950. She died on 7 January 1985, at the age of 73, and was buried in New Palestine Cemetery, Picayune, Pearl River, Mississippi, United States.
English: topographic name from Middle English dene ‘valley’ (Old English denu), or a habitational name from any of several places in various parts of England named Dean or Dene from this word.
English: nickname or occupational name for the servant of a dean or nickname for someone thought to resemble a dean. A dean was an ecclesiastical official, the head of a chapter of canons or a church official with jurisdiction over a sub-division of an archdeaconry. Though no doubt some deans had illegitimate children, they were officially celibate, and in the main the surname is probably a nickname in origin, similar to Bishop , Prior , Priest , and Monk . The Middle English word deen, dien, dein, is a borrowing of Old French d(e)ien, doien from Latin decanus (originally a leader of ten men, from decem ‘ten’), and thus is a cognate of Deacon .
English: from the Middle English personal name Deyne (or Dene) a rhyming pet form of Reynald (see Reginald ).
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