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Larretta Votaw 1924 - 1979

Larretta Votaw (1924 - 1979)
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Larretta Votaw
Last Known Residence
Dayton, Liberty County, Texas 77535
Born
June 8, 1924
Death
December 1979
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Larretta Votaw of Dayton, Liberty County, Texas was born on June 8, 1924, and died at age 55 years old in December 1979.

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Dayton, Liberty County, Texas 77535
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Larretta Votaw passed away at age 55 years old in December 1979. Larretta Votaw of Dayton, Liberty County, Texas was born on June 8, 1924.

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Larretta Votaw lived 18 years shorter than the average Votaw family member when they died at the age of 55.
The average age of a Votaw family member is 73.
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1924 - 1979 World Events

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In 1924, in the year that Larretta Votaw was born, on January 21st, Vladimir Lenin, a leader of the Russian Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union died. He had survived two assassination attempts but had subsequent physical problems, suffering 3 strokes. He was in such great pain, it is said that he asked Stalin to poison him. The circumstances of his death are still disputed. He did oppose Stalin as the next leader - nonetheless, Stalin won a power struggle and ruled as a Soviet dictator until his death in 1953.

In 1941, by the time this person was 17 years old, in his State of the Union address on January 6th, President Roosevelt detailed the "four freedoms" that everyone in the world should have: Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, and Freedom from fear. In the same speech, he outlined the benefits of democracy which he said were economic opportunity, employment, social security, and the promise of "adequate health care".

In 1956, Larretta was 32 years old when on May 20th, the U.S. tested the first hydrogen bomb dropped from a plane over Bikini Atoll. Previously, hydrogen bombs had only been tested on the ground. The Atomic Age moved forward.

In 1964, at the age of 40 years old, Larretta was alive when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.

In 1979, in the year of Larretta Votaw'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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