My middle name is LaPreal.
My mother's middle name is LaPreal. She was born 9-29-39 in Provo, UT.
Her mother's middle name was LaPreal, born in Pocatello, ID to Leo Milton Noakes.
My twin daughters' middle names are LaPreal.

Do you have any idea where the name LaPreal came from?

All we know is that "Lee" Noakes once had a girlfriend named LaPreal (or Lapreal). This narrows it down to about 4200 possible girlfriends.
My French friend, Veronique, says the name doesn't mean anything in French.

LaPreal Net sightings:
Lapreal CHRISTENSEN was born on Jul 23 1937 in Lark, Salt Lake County, Utah. (384) Parents: Clifford E. CHRISTENSEN and Fern Ludean JOHNSON."

Philip and Mary Maud and their three young children, Roscoe, Bryan and LaPreal, immigrated to Canada from Bicknell, Utah in the spring of 1919. LaPreal b. Feb 1919, married Alden McNeely, four children and grandchildren.

Thelma LaPreal MONTAGUE BIRTH: 30 JAN 1923, Payson,Utah,Utah Father: David Leslie MONTAGUE Mother: Lillian Carline ARMSTRONG Family 1: Vincent Leo CARROLL MARRIAGE: 6 SEP 1947, Seattle,,Washington Mary Cecilia CARROLL Colleen Janet CARROLL Leo Vincent CARROLL Jeannine LaPreal CARROLL

Lapreal Riddle

Mary LaPreal NUTTALL 7 Jan 1878 - 17 Dec 1912 BIRTH: 7 Jan 1878, Wallsburg, Wasatch, UT [3261] DEATH: 17 Dec 1912, Pima, Graham, AZ [3262] Father: John Horatio NUTTALL Mother: Laura Naomi GARDNER Family 1 : Don Carlos MCBRIDE MARRIAGE: 13 Jan 1897, Pima, Graham, AZ [4698]

She gave birth to 4 children, Grace LaPreal, b. 10-31-1911 d. 6-27-1917, William Allen, b. 10-20-1913 d. 7-11-1997, Leida Ruth, b. 4-7-1916 and Mary Eleanor, b. 4-7-1918 d. 3-22-1991. She buried her oldest daughter, LaPreal (as she was known), when she was only 5 1/2 years old.

Dena LaPreal HARTWELL BIRTH: 25 Mar 1923, Burley, Cassia, ID Father: Rulon Dean HARTWELL Mother: Nina Elizabeth SANDERS Family 1: William SPRAGUE Shellie Patrice SPRAGUE Ellen Win SPRAGUE William Franklin SPRAGUE Family 2: RUSSELL DOMAN MARRIAGE: 7 Jul 1944

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Winton Wilcox (Mary Lou) (LaPreal)

Blanche Lapreal Bigler, born March 17, 1901 in Nephi, Juab, UT; married Franklin Hanmer Brough in Salt Lake City, UT

Seedal, Faye Lapreal Birth : --living-- Gender: Female

LaPreal ROURKE

Hatch, LaPreal

Hastings, LaPreal

LaPreal Wight held the longest tenure as librarian from 1947 until her retirement in 1974. She continued adding to reference materials, church and history publications, fiction, and biographical works.

Elva LaPreal LYBBERT ( 24 FEB 1912 - DECEASED )

Socially, we were called the "Happy Eight," and we ruled the school. We included Leta Cowley, LaPreal Magleby, Ruth Magleby, Florence Magleby, Elva and Ruth Swindle, Melba Erickson, and me.

Ida Lapreal Born: April 25, 1889 in Springdale, UT Married: May 15, 1912 in St. George, UT Died: November 25, 1981 in Farmingtion, UT.

Family History:
Bea Holland's Family Remembrances as told to Alice Morrison-Cummings on October 2, 1996

My Mother, Alice Elizabeth Luthy Noakes by Ruby Alice Noakes Woodland

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Violet LaPreal Noakes-Morrison with Alice Elizabeth Luthy-Noakes
Leo Milton Noakes's children, Irvin, LaPreal, & Ruby Noakes, photo and identification courtesy of Ruby Noakes-Woodland c. 1970
Violet LaPreal Noakes-Morrison, my biological grandmother who died when my mom was eight and who was raised as Bea Huff-Holland's sister because LaPreal's mother died when she was five
Three generations of LaPreals -- Alice LaPreal Morrison-Cummings holding Kilory Violet LaPreal Alexandra Weis and C LaPreal Cummings-Weis holding Nicole Violet LaPreal Tristan Weis -- and four generations of Morrisons
Alice LaPreal Morrison-Cummings's first birthday, 9-29-1940
Ruby & Melvin Woodland. Ruby Alice Noakes-Woodland (b: 7-11-1915, Rexburg, ID d: 8-3-1995, Sacramento, CA) was my biological grandmother's identical non-twin sister, so when I see her I think that's what LaPreal would have looked like

Ruby pulling LaPreal in this wagon, exact date unknown. It may have been taken when I was overseas. Barbara loves this picture!!!!!!! Sweet, proper, immaculate Ruby on her hands and knees with a rope in her mouth with high heels on!!!!!

  Violet LaPreal Noakes-Morrison, Alice LaPreal Morrison-Cummings, & Leo Milton Noakes II, c. 1940s

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