Bertha Venus (Walser) Cook (1913 - 1999)

Bertha's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Cook family tree.

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Bertha's Parents

Cephas Alonza Walser

Eva Lena (Allen) Walser

Lena Alonza (Walser) Thompson Harvey Elgie Walser Curtis Lynn Walser Bertha Venus (Walser) Cook

Walter W Walser Richard Walser Sarah E (Walser) Smith Joe Quincy Walser

Parents:

Cephas Alonza Walser

Apr 3, 1875 - Jun 13, 1973

Eva Lena (Allen) Walser

Nov 27, 1877 - Aug 6, 1968

Siblings:

Walter W Walser

1904 - Aug 7, 2000

Lena Alonza (Walser) Thompson

May 2, 1900 - Aug 28, 1984

Richard Walser

Jun 1, 1902 - Apr 28, 1912

Harvey Elgie Walser

Sep 16, 1908 - Jan 18, 1950

Sarah E (Walser) Smith

Jan 29, 1911 - Jan 6, 1996

Curtis Lynn Walser

Nov 2, 1915 - Jul 17, 1978

Joe Quincy Walser

Apr 22, 1922 - 2003

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Bertha Venus (Walser) Cook & Roy Houston Cook Sr

December 21, 1974

Bertha Venus (Walser) Cook

Roy Houston Cook Sr

Spouse:

Roy Houston Cook Sr

Dec 20, 1920 - Apr 7, 2003

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Bertha Venus “Bert” (Walser) Cook

Added: Jul 15, 2020

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In 1913, in the year that Bertha Venus (Walser) Cook was born, Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. It had previously taken 12 hours to assemble a whole vehicle - now it took only two hours and 30 minutes! Inspired by the production lines at flour mills, breweries, canneries and industrial bakeries, along with the disassembly of animal carcasses in Chicago’s meat-packing plants, Ford created moving belts for parts and the assembly line was born.

In 1926, when she was just 13 years old, on November 15th, NBC was founded. It was the U.S.'s first major broadcast network. Ownership of the network was split between RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its founding corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%), and Westinghouse (which owned the remaining 20%).

In 1956, she was 43 years old when this was the year that the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, became an international sensation. He began the year as a regional favorite and ended the year with 17 recordings having been on the Billboard’s Top 100 singles chart, 11 TV appearances, and a movie. Elvis scandalized adults and thrilled teens.

In 1960, at the age of 47 years old, Bertha was alive when on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.

In 1975, she was 62 years old when in January, Popular Mechanics featured the Altair 8800 on it's cover. The Altair home computer kit allowed consumers to build and program their own personal computers. Thousands were sold in the first month.