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Elsie Opal Funk 1921 - 2004

Elsie Opal Funk was born on September 21, 1921 in Thornton, West Virginia United States to Luther Wesley Funk and Flora Mae Cox, and had siblings Hazel Mildred Funk, Alta Blanche Funk, Dorothy Evelyn Funk, and James Joseph Funk. Elsie Funk married Lloyd Freeman Mumaw in 1947, and died at age 82 years old on May 8, 2004 in Pruntytown.
Elsie Opal Funk
September 21, 1921
Thornton, West Virginia, 26354, United States
May 8, 2004
Pruntytown, West Virginia, 26354, United States
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  • 09/21
    1921

    Birthday

    September 21, 1921
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    Thornton, West Virginia 26354, United States
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  • 05/8
    2004

    Death

    May 8, 2004
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Pruntytown, West Virginia 26354, United States
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    Elsie Opal Funk lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1921, in the year that Elsie Opal Funk was born, hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..
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In 1933, by the time she was only 12 years old, 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.
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