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Bertha Lee Sanders 1924 - 2013

Bertha Lee Sanders was born in 1924 to Ollie Jane Lunsford and Willie Edgar Sanders, and had siblings Bettie Jean Sanders and Cathalene Ann Sanders. Bertha Sanders died at age 89 years old in 2013 in Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma United States.
Bertha Lee Sanders
1924
2013
Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, 74859, United States
Female
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    1924
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  • 2013

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    2013
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    Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma 74859, United States
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    Bertha Lee Sanders lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1924, in the year that Bertha Lee Sanders 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 1940, at the age of 16 years old, Bertha was alive when in July, Billboard published its first Music Popularity Chart. Top recordings of the year were Tommy Dorsey's "I'll Never Smile Again" (vocal Frank Sinatra) - 12 weeks at the top, Bing Crosby's "Only Forever" - 9 weeks at the top, and Artie Shaw's "Frenesi" - 12 weeks at the top.
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