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John Gikas 1914 - 2005

John Gikas of Southgate, Wayne County, MI was born on July 31, 1914, and died at age 91 years old on November 3, 2005.
John Gikas
Southgate, Wayne County, MI 48195
July 31, 1914
November 3, 2005
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  • 07/31
    1914

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    July 31, 1914
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  • 11/3
    2005

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    November 3, 2005
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    John Gikas lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 91.
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In 1914, in the year that John Gikas 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 1920, when he was merely 6 years old, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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