Lola Mae Hawkins (1904–1986) • FamilySearch

Lola Mae Hawkins

29 July 1904–26 November 1986 (Age 82)
Maricopa, Kern, California, United States

The Life Summary of Lola Mae

When Lola Mae Hawkins was born on 29 July 1904, in Maricopa, Kern, California, United States, her father, Joseph Henry Hawkins, was 32 and her mother, Luora Needham, was 26. She married Weldon Waine Gifford Sr on 20 May 1922, in Maricopa, Kern, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States in 1930 and Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States in 1940. She died on 26 November 1986, in Ventura, California, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Ivy Lawn Memorial Park, Ventura, Ventura, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Weldon Waine Gifford Sr
1900–1974
Lola Mae Hawkins
1904–1986
Marriage: 20 May 1922
Lola Winona Gifford
1925–2011
Weldon Waine Gifford Jr.
1928–1984
Francis Newton Gifford
1930–2015

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    20 May 1922Maricopa, Kern, California, United States
    • Children

    (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (2)

    World Events (8)

    1906 · Saving Food Labels
    Age 2
    The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
    1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
    Age 2
    A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
    1927
    Age 23
    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    Name Meaning

    English: variant of Hawkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.English: habitational name, with excrescent -s, from Hawkinge (Kent). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’ + the placename forming suffix -ing. This name has been assimilated to the patronymic surname in Devon from Sir John Hawkyns (1532–95), victor against the Spanish Armada (1588), who was a member of the Devon family of Hawkins, a branch of a Kentish family from the village of Hawkinge. They held land in Plymouth as long ago as 1480.Irish: variant of Haughn .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Hawkin

    Sources (9)

    • Lola Hawkins in entry for Frank Newton Gifford, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
    • Lola Gifford in household of W Gifford, "United States Census, 1940"
    • Lola M Gifford in household of Weldon W Gifford, "United States Census, 1930"

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