In 1919 Gertrude Berg was Born. In 2014, Gertrude Wilcox, Mom, passed quietly at age 95(almost). In her lifetime she saw the Versailles Treaty, Bubonic Plague, First Radio broadcast, Prohibition, Women got the vote, League of Nations, lie detector invented, Insulin discovered, King Tut unearthed, Talking films, Teapot Dome scandal, First Olympic Winter games, Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy, Flappers, Babe Ruth sets HR record, Stalin, Pluto discovered, Al Capone, Empire State building finished, First TV, Air conditioning invented, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, The atom is split, Depression, Japan invades China, New Deal, Bonnie and Clyde, Monopoly first sold, Social Security enacted, Hitler rises to power, Hoover Dam, Spanish Civil War, Hindenburg disaster, Golden Gate Bridge opened, World War II, Pearl Harbor, Mount Rushmore completed, T Shirt introduced, VE day, United Nations formed, Atomic bombs, VJ day, NATO formed, Ball Point pen invented, First computer, Microwave oven invented, slinky, Bikini, Sound Barrier, Polaroid Camera invented, Israel founded, first credit card, “Peanuts” debuts, Korean war, Color TV, seatbelts, Polio Vaccine, DNA discovered, first Playboy, Martin Luther King , court ordered desegregation, Disneyland opens, McDonalds founded, Elvis Presley, Velcro invented, TV remote, civil rights act, first Xerox machine, sputnik, Legos, NASA, Alaska and Hawaii become states, Castro to power, Lasers, birth control pills, Bay of Pigs, Peace Corps formed, Berlin Wall built, First WalMart, Cuban Missile crisis, James Bond, Johnny Carson, Marilyn Monroe, Kennedy assassinated, Ruby assassinates Oswald, Miniskirt, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Vietnam War, Watts riots, Star Trek, first heart transplant, MLK and RFK assassinated, Neal Armstrong, Woodstock, VCR, Mark Spitz, voting age to 18, Roe v Wade, Apple, Nixon resigns (Watergate), Microsoft, Star Wars, In Vitro, Iran hostages, Mother Teresa, 3 mile island, Walkman, John Lennon, PacMan, Aids, first PC, Michael Jackson, Space Shuttle, Sally Ride, Berlin Wall falls, Internet, Exxon Valdez, Soviet Union dissolves, Desert Storm, Mad Cow, Princess Diana, Viagra, Y2K, Human Genome, Wikepedia, 911, MySpace, Facebook, Youtube, flashdrives, Twitter, ObamaCare, Osama bin Laden, 16 Presidents from Warren Harding to Barack Obama, 5 kids, 12 Grandchildren, 12 Great Grandchildren and counting. What a life. We will forever miss you.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 23:28:30 +0000
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