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Clara Verkerk Wood 1924 - 2003

Clara Verkerk Wood of Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA was born on May 20, 1924, and died at age 78 years old on January 9, 2003. Clara Wood was buried at San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery Section C-5 Site 264 West Mccabe Road, in Santa Nella.
Clara Verkerk Wood
Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA 95204
May 20, 1924
January 9, 2003
Female
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  • 05/20
    1924

    Birthday

    May 20, 1924
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: M SGT Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
  • 01/9
    2003

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    January 9, 2003
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    San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery Section C-5 Site 264 West Mccabe Road, in Santa Nella, Ca 95322
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In 1924, in the year that Clara Verkerk Wood 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 1952, at the age of 28 years old, Clara was alive when on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
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