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Geneva Ripstra 1920 - 2001

Geneva Ripstra of Thorntown, Boone County, IN was born on April 6, 1920, and died at age 81 years old on August 31, 2001.
Geneva Ripstra
Thorntown, Boone County, IN 46071
April 6, 1920
August 31, 2001
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  • 04/6
    1920

    Birthday

    April 6, 1920
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  • 08/31
    2001

    Death

    August 31, 2001
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    Geneva Ripstra lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1920, in the year that Geneva Ripstra was born, the National Football League, first called the American Professional Football Association, was created. College football was more popular than pro football and rising player salaries were bankrupting league owners. In response, owners created the NFL, using the pro baseball association as a model. Eleven teams were formed: the Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, Dayton Triangles, Decatur Staleys, Hammond Pros, Massillon Tigers, Muncie Flyers, Racine Cardinals, Rochester Jeffersons and Rock Island Independents.
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In 1933, Geneva was just 13 years old when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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