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Alida Battjes 1924 - 2007

Alida Battjes of Mountain Home, Baxter County, AR was born on November 20, 1924, and died at age 82 years old on February 20, 2007.
Alida Battjes
Mountain Home, Baxter County, AR 72653
November 20, 1924
February 20, 2007
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  • 11/20
    1924

    Birthday

    November 20, 1924
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  • 02/20
    2007

    Death

    February 20, 2007
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    Alida Battjes lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1924, in the year that Alida Battjes was born, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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In 1934, at the age of just 10 years old, Alida was alive when on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.
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