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Bessie Ward 1933 - 2002

Bessie Ward of Adamsville, McNairy County, TN was born on July 8, 1933, and died at age 69 years old on October 27, 2002.
Bessie Ward
Adamsville, McNairy County, TN 38310
July 8, 1933
October 27, 2002
Female
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  • 07/8
    1933

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    July 8, 1933
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  • 10/27
    2002

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    October 27, 2002
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    Bessie Ward lived 3 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 69.
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In 1933, in the year that Bessie Ward was born, Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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In 1945, at the age of only 12 years old, Bessie was alive when on April 12th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. At 1p, he was sitting for a portrait when he complained that he had a "terrific pain" in the back of his head and collapsed. A doctor was summoned and the doctor gave him a shot of adrenaline into his heart. It didn't help and he was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. A slow moving train took him back to Washington D.C. while thousands of mourners lined the tracks. He was buried at his home in Hyde Park, New York.
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