William Romeo LIPPE

Born

18 March 1907 , Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Died

2 October 1958 , Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Joseph Alexis Anthime LIPPE Laura LAREAU (LEREAU)

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Born: 18 March 1907 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Father: Joseph Alexis Anthime LIPPE

Mother: Laura LAREAU (LEREAU)

Paternal grandparents: Edmond LIPPE , Abigail COLLIN dite LALIBERTE

Maternal grandparents: Jean Baptiste "John" LAREAU (LAREAUX) , Amelia Malvina POULIN

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William Romeo married Berthe C MALO 18 June 1929 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA . Berthe C MALO was born abt. 1905 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Berthe C died 23 December 1960 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville).

William Romeo LIPPE died 2 October 1958 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA .

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Berthe C MALO
Marriage date: 18 June 1929
Marriage place: Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Birth — 1907
18 March 1907
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

1908 - First Model-T car is produced by Henry Ford (United States)

1909 - William Howard Taft becomes President of the United States

1912 - April 15 - Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic

1913 - The assembly line is invented (Henry Ford, United States)

The bra is invented (Mary Phelps Jacob, United States)

1913 - Woodrow Wilson becomes President of the United States

1913 - October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated

1915 - January 25 - First United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call

1917 - March 2 – The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.

1917 - April 6 – WWI: The United States declares war on Germany

1918 - March 19 – The United States Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time

1919 - June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification

1920 - January 17 - Prohibition goes into effect on January 17, 1920, under the provisions of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution

1921 - Warren G. Harding becomes President of the United States

1921 - Charles Strite of Minnesota patents the pop-up toaster.

1923 to 1927 - Television is invented (Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Russia), Philo Taylor Farnsworth (United States))

1923 - Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the United States

1927 - The aerosol can is invented (Erik Rotheim, Norway)

1927 - April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television

1928 - Sliced bread (bread slicing machine) is invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder (United States)

1929 Marriage / Partner
William Romeo LIPPE and Berthe C MALO 18 June 1929, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville)

He was 22 years old.

1929 marriage
Notre Dame Church, Southbridge, Massachusetts

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1929 - Herbert Hoover becomes President of the United States

1929 - October 29 - Black Tuesday - Stock market crash - The Great Depression Begins - It lasted until 1941 (WW2)

1930 - Scotch tape is invented (Richard Drew (3M), United States)

In 1930, on February 18, Pluto was discovered by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, marking a significant milestone in the study of our solar system.

1931 - The paper towel is invented (Arthur Scott, United States)

1931 - March 3 – The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem.

1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President of the United States

1933 - December 5 – The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, repealing Prohibition

1934 - The metal beverage can is invented (American Can Co., United States)

1935 - The snowmobile was invented by Joseph Bombardier (Quebec, Canada)

1935 - August 14 – United States President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law

1938 - The ballpoint pen is invented (Lazlo Biro, Hungary)

1938-1944 - Sunscreen is invented (Franz Greiter, Switzerland and Benjamin Green, United States)

1938 - October 27 - Du Pont announces a name for its new synthetic yarn: nylon.

1940 - April - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

1941 - December 8 - (the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor) United States declares war on Japan (WW2)

1944 - D-Day, which occurred on June 6, 1944, was a pivotal World War II operation where Allied forces launched a massive invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France. Known as Operation Overlord, it involved over 156,000 troops from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and other Allied nations. The operation aimed to liberate Western Europe from Nazi German control. The landings marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany, leading to the eventual Allied victory in Europe.

1945 - The atomic bomb is invented (J. Robert Oppenheimer, et al., United States)

The microwave oven was invented accidentally in 1945 by Percy Spencer, a Raytheon engineer. While testing a magnetron, he noticed microwaves melted a candy bar in his pocket. Experimenting further, he discovered microwaves could cook food quickly. Raytheon patented the process, and by 1947, they built the first commercial microwave oven, called the 'Radarange.' Initially used in commercial settings, microwaves becomes affordable for home use by the 1960s and 1970s, revolutionizing cooking.

1945 - Harry S. Truman becomes President of the United States

1945 - On September 2, 1945, World War II officially ended with the formal surrender of Japan. The surrender ceremony took place aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, where Japanese officials signed the Instrument of Surrender in the presence of Allied representatives, including General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz.

1948 - Velcro is invented (George de Mestral, Switzerland)

1950 - June 25 - Korean War begins when North Korean forces invade South Korea.

1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President of the United States

1953 - On July 27, 1953, the Korean War ended with the signing of an armistice agreement at Panmunjom. This ceasefire halted the conflict between North Korea, supported by China and the Soviet Union, and South Korea, backed by United Nations forces primarily from the United States. The agreement established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) near the 38th parallel, effectively maintaining the pre-war boundary and creating a buffer zone between the two Koreas.

Obituary

Worcester Telegram, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 3, 1958

Grave

New Notre Dame Cemetery
Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville)

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Death — 1958
2 October 1958
Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA
He died at the age of 51.

Obituary
Romeo E. Lippe
Rites are Saturday

Milk, Poultry Dealer Dead in Southbridge

SOUTHBRIDGE - Romeo E. Lippe, 51, of 1107 Dennison Drive, widely known milk and poultry dealer and proprietor of the Lippe Dairy Spa on Dennison Drive, died this morning in his home, after a long illness.

Born in Worcester, he was son of Anthime and Laura (Lareau) Lippe.

He was one of the founders of Southbridge Co-Operative Milk Dealers Assn. and a member of the Farm Bureau, Farmers Poultry Assn., Southbridge Grange, and the Firemen's Field Day Assn.

He leaves his widow, Mrs. Berthe (Malo) Lippe, his mother in Fitchburg, two daughters, Mrs. Shirley Svedberg of Sutton and Miss Janet Lippe of town, a brother, Armand Lippe of there; three half-brothers, Raymond of Worcester, Robert and Norman of Alameda, Calif.; a half-sister, Mrs. Rita Bombard of Alameda, and one grandchild.

The funeral will be Saturday from the Daniel T. Morrill Funeral Home at 9:16 a.m. with a Mass at 10 a.m. in Notre Dame...Read full story

The Evening Gazette
Worcester, Massachusetts
October 2, 1958

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Burial & Cemetery

Burial details for William:

New Notre Dame Cemetery

North Woodstock Rd (Rt. 169)
Southbridge, Massachusetts
Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville)
Phone: (508)-764-0601 -- NOTE: Earliest graves in this cemetery date to around 1931

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