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Dortha Nell Gaskin 1924 - 2010

Dortha Nell Gaskin of Eugene, Lane County, Oregon was born on December 20, 1924, and died at age 85 years old on September 15, 2010.
Dortha Nell Gaskin
Eugene, Lane County, Oregon 97404
December 20, 1924
September 15, 2010
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    1924

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    December 20, 1924
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    2010

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    September 15, 2010
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    Dortha Nell Gaskin lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1924, in the year that Dortha Nell Gaskin 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 1934, she was only 10 years old when on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.
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