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Hortense Dess 1914 - 2007

Hortense Dess of Valhalla, Westchester County, NY was born on September 30, 1914, and died at age 92 years old on January 2, 2007. Hortense Dess was buried at Long Island National Cemetery Section 2U Site 1238 2040 Wellwood Avenue, in Farmingdale.

Hortense Dess
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Valhalla, Westchester County, NY 10595
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September 30, 1914
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Updated: November 17, 2015
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    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: TEC 5 Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
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In 1914, in the year that Hortense Dess was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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In 1933, when she was 19 years old, 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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