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Re: American women
by ClaudiaS
4/25/2018, 7:14 AM
in reply to a message by Armista Ann
One very simple way is to use Google. The first few pages of Google show one obituary for an Armista who died in 2011, another who died in 2016, and living Armistas in California, Connecticut, and Mississippi. So you are not the only one, though it does seem to be an extremely rare name.
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- Sabertooth   +1
5/2/2018, 4:52 PM
Facebook is good for that, too.I also found a male form, Armistus, and a surname form (probably male, too), Armisto.The Bing Translator says "armista" is Italian for "The Army." As a name, it probably means "woman soldier" like "GI Jane."

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- ClaudiaS
5/4/2018, 6:39 AM
It just occurred to me that, depending on her age, the grandmother's sister Armista may have been named for the "Armistice" (the ending of World War I). Was she born on or soon after November 11, 1918?
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