Kathryn Veronica (Flannery) Heckman (1906 - 1978)

Kathryn's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Heckman family tree.

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Kathryn's Parents

Sarah Farrell Flannery

William Francis Flannery

Kathryn Veronica (Flannery) Heckman

Parents:

Sarah Farrell Flannery

Dec 24, 1875 - Sep 16, 1956

William Francis Flannery

Mar 28, 1874 - 1921

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Kathryn Veronica (Flannery) Heckman & Allen John Heckman

Kathryn Veronica (Flannery) Heckman

Allen John Heckman

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Allen John Heckman

Feb 4, 1910 - Oct 12, 1958

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Allen & Kathryn (Flannery) Heckman

Allen & Kathryn Heckman

Kathryn Veronica Flannery

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In 1906, in the year that Kathryn Veronica (Flannery) Heckman was born, abolitionist and suffragette leader Susan B. Anthony died, before women's right to vote nationally was realized (in 1920). She, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association which later became the League of Women Voters. She died at the age of 86 of heart failure and pneumonia in her home in New York.

In 1924, at the age of 18 years old, Kathryn was alive when J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.

In 1944, she was 38 years old when on December 16th, The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes forest on the Western Front. Lasting for a little over a month, the battle began with a surprise attack by Germany on the Allied forces The U.S. suffered their highest casualties of any operation in World War II - 89,000 were casualties, around 8,600 killed - but Germany also severely depleted their resources and they couldn't be replaced.

In 1960, by the time she was 54 years old, on September 26th, the first televised debate for a Presidential campaign in the United States - Kennedy vs Nixon - was held. Seventy million people watched the debate on TV. The debate pre-empted the very popular Andy Griffith Show.

In 1978, in the year of Kathryn Veronica (Flannery) Heckman's passing, on July 25th, Louise Brown, the first "test-tube baby", was born at Oldham Hospital in London. Louise was conceived through IVF (in vitro fertilization), a controversial and experimental procedure at the time.