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Leonora Burden King Grimball 1914 - 2007

Leonora Burden King Grimball of Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina was born on June 30, 1914, and died at age 92 years old on January 8, 2007.
Leonora Burden King Grimball
Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina 29455
June 30, 1914
January 8, 2007
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    1914

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    June 30, 1914
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  • 01/8
    2007

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    January 8, 2007
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    Leonora Burden King Grimball lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1914, in the year that Leonora Burden King Grimball 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 1938, she was 24 years old when on October 30th, a Sunday, The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast Orson Welles' special Halloween show The War of the World's. A clever take on H.G. Wells' novel, the show began with simulated "breaking news" of an invasion by Martians. Because of the realistic nature of the "news," there was a public outcry the next day, calling for regulation by the FCC. Although the current story is that many were fooled and panicked, in reality very few people were fooled. But the show made Orson Welles' career.
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