When Winton Arlando Dean was born on 17 January 1907, in Fairmount, Fairmount Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, his father, Charles Desco Dean, was 27 and his mother, Emma Jane Woolen, was 21. He married Mildred Marie Wilson on 26 July 1930, in Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950 and Brooksville, Hernando, Florida, United States in 1995. He registered for military service in 1943. His occupation is listed as dental technician in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States. He died on 21 February 1995, in Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Park Cemetery, Fairmount, Fairmount Township, Grant, Indiana, 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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