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Dorothy Elaine (Ferguson) Kroetch (1906 - 1932)
Dorothy Elaine (Ferguson) Kroetch, mother to 4 children, was born in October 1906 in Washington United States of America. She was born into the Ferguson family and married into the Kroetch family. She was born to George Ferguson and Nancy Marguerite (Boggs) Ferguson, and we currently have no other siblings in her family tree. Dorothy married Hollis Joseph Kroetch around 1923 and Dorothy died in August 1932. They gave birth to Frank Edward Kroetch, Elaine Marguerite (Kroetch) Gillett, Hollis Frederick Kroetch, and Juanita Maryjane (Kroetch) Erickson. She died in 1932 in Washington at age 25.
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Dorothy Elaine (Ferguson) Kroetch
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Dorothy Kroetch was born in in Whatcom County, Washington United States of America
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Dorothy Kroetch died in in Washington United States of America
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Dorothy Elaine (Ferguson) Kroetch, mother to 4 children, passed away in 1932 in Washington at 25 years old. Dorothy was born in October 1906 in Washington United States of America. She was born to George Ferguson and Nancy Marguerite (Boggs) Ferguson, and we currently have no other siblings in her family tree. She married Hollis Joseph Kroetch around 1923 and Dorothy died in August 1932. They gave birth to Frank Edward Kroetch, Elaine Marguerite (Kroetch) Gillett, Hollis Frederick Kroetch, and Juanita Maryjane (Kroetch) Erickson.
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In 1906, in the year that Dorothy Elaine (Ferguson) Kroetch was born, the great San Francisco earthquake hit, estimated at 7.8 on the Richter scale. The earthquake caused fires that raged for days and between the earthquake and the fire, about 3,000 people were killed and 80% of the City was destroyed.
In 1914, at the age of only 8 years old, Dorothy was alive when in August, the world's first red and green traffic lights were installed at the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland Ohio. The electric traffic light had been invented by a policeman in Salt Lake City Utah in 1912.
In 1918, at the age of only 12 years old, Dorothy was alive when following European countries, Daylight Saving Time went into effect in the United States in March. It was an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power. This was a war effort and proved unpopular so in most areas of the United States, Daylight Saving Time ended after World War I. It returned during World War II.
In 1920, she was just 14 years old when speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.
In 1932, in the year of Dorothy Elaine (Ferguson) Kroetch's passing, five years to the day after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland, the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo and the first to replicate Lindbergh's feat. She flew over 2,000 miles in just under 15 hours.
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