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Gladys Grenfell 1897 - 1977

Gladys Grenfell of Portland, Washington County, Oregon was born on August 13, 1897, and died at age 80 years old in September 1977.
Gladys Grenfell
Portland, Washington County, Oregon 97225
August 13, 1897
September 1977
Female
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    1897

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    August 13, 1897
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  • 09/dd
    1977

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    September 1977
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    Gladys Grenfell lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 80.
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In 1897, in the year that Gladys Grenfell was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1919, by the time she was 22 years old, in the summer and early autumn, race riots erupted in 26 U.S. cities, resulting in hundreds of deaths and even more people being badly hurt. In most cases, African-Americans were the victims. It was called the "Red Summer". Men who were returning from World War I needed jobs and there was competition for those jobs among the races. Tension was heightened by the use by many companies of blacks as strikebreakers.
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