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Isabel Lay 1899 - 1979

Isabel Lay (1899 - 1979)
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Isabel Lay
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June 23, 1899
Death
October 1979
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Isabel Lay was born on June 23, 1899, and died at age 80 years old in October 1979. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Isabel Lay.

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June 23, 1899
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Isabel Lay passed away at age 80 years old in October 1979. Isabel Lay was born on June 23, 1899. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Isabel Lay.

Average Age & Life Expectancy

Isabel Lay lived 9 years longer than the average Lay family member when she died at the age of 80.
The average age of a Lay family member is 71.
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1899 - 1979 World Events

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In 1899, in the year that Isabel Lay was born, on February 14th, the first voting machines were approved by Congress for use in federal elections. Several states were already using voting machines in their elections and the Federal government was finally convinced of their safety and accuracy.

In 1937, by the time she was 38 years old, on May 28th, the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge opened to cars. Taking 5 years to build, the 4,200-foot-long suspension bridge was an engineering marvel of its time - 11 men died during construction. The "international orange" color was chosen because it resisted rust and fading. To the present, it is the symbol of the City that is known throughout the world.

In 1947, by the time she was 48 years old, in June, the Marshall Plan was proposed to help European nations recover economically from World War II. It passed the conservative Republican Congress in March of 1948. After World War I, the economic devastation of Germany caused by burdensome reparations payments led to the rise of Hitler. The Allies didn't want this to happen again and the Marshall Plan was devised to make sure that those conditions didn't arise again.

In 1968, she was 69 years old when on April 4th, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader, was shot and killed by an assassin in Memphis. James Earl Ray was apprehended and plead guilty to shooting Dr. King. Ray died in jail in 1998.

In 1979, in the year of Isabel Lay's passing, on March 28th, a partial nuclear meltdown occurred at the power plant at Three Mile Island Pennsylvania. Radiation leaked into the environment, resulting in a rating of 5 on a scale of 7 ("Accident With Wider Consequences") . It ended up costing $1 billion to clean up the site.

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