Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning
(1908 - 1987)
Southampton, Southampton County, England United Kingdom
She died at her home in the mountains in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, California United States
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That was my first experience with death. I seem to recall being okay with it, which could be viewed as unusual as we had such a wonderful relationship. The few strongest memories are likely not the two you would chose for me to remember. One is the time you spilled coffee on my head. Okay, ok, it was hot water from the stove but you were making it for coffee. Two is when I fell behind during one of our usual walks around the neighborhood. It was unusual that I was slow, and you realized I had reason since my shoes were on backwards :c)
Note from Kathleen Pinna: The car ride home was from Kindergarten at St. Francis Cabrini. Otherwise, you're right - you weren't upset when you realized GG was dead. But you were very close to her - from the time you were an infant, she would babysit you when I was working odd hours at the emergency room. It's funny that you remember the walk - you were perhaps 14 months old.
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Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning & George Lawrence Benning
1928 - 1946Cause of Separation: Death
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Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning & Charles Henry Barrett Sr.
1948 - 1950Cause of Separation: Death
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Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning & Dewey David D'Albert
1961Cause of Separation: Death
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, CA, United States
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In 1908, in the year that Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning was born, a 7.1 earthquake and the resulting tsunami killed 70,000 to 100,000 people in southern Italy and Sicily. The earthquake, lasting 30 to 40 seconds, occurred in the Strait of Messina which was between the region of Calabria (at the "toe" of Italy) and the island of Sicily and destruction from it occurred in a 186 mile radius. It was the most destructive earthquake ever to hit Europe.
In 1933, she was 25 years old when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
In 1952, by the time she was 44 years old, 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.
In 1970, she was 62 years old when on May 1st, US troops invaded Cambodia, expanding the Vietnam War. The invasion of Cambodia was a Nixon policy, although it was argued against by both his Secretary of State and his Secretary of Defense.
In 1987, in the year of Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning's passing, was the first time that a criminal in the United States - a serial rapist - was convicted through the use of DNA evidence.
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