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Cecilia H Bensen 1915 - 2008

Cecilia H Bensen of Detroit Lakes, Becker County, MN was born on June 24, 1915, and died at age 92 years old on February 19, 2008.
Cecilia H Bensen
Detroit Lakes, Becker County, MN 56501
June 24, 1915
February 19, 2008
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  • 06/24
    1915

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    June 24, 1915
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  • 02/19
    2008

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    February 19, 2008
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    Cecilia H Bensen lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1915, in the year that Cecilia H Bensen was born, in April, the Ottoman Empire rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Turkey. As their actions continued through the next several years, an estimated 600,000 to 1 million Armenians were killed by Turkish soldiers.
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In 1924, at the age of just 9 years old, Cecilia was alive when 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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