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Ethel E Heikes 1915 - 2011

Ethel E Heikes of York, York County, PA was born on June 25, 1915, and died at age 96 years old on June 28, 2011.
Ethel E Heikes
York, York County, PA 17403
June 25, 1915
June 28, 2011
Female
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  • 06/25
    1915

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    June 25, 1915
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  • 06/28
    2011

    Death

    June 28, 2011
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    Ethel E Heikes lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 96.
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In 1915, in the year that Ethel E Heikes was born, the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
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In 1933, Ethel was 18 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.
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