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Mary Robertson (Cunningham) O'Brien 1920 - 2016

Mary Robertson (Cunningham) O'Brien was born in 1920 to Dorothy Omond (Wardlaw) Cunningham and Norman Gordon Cunningham, and had siblings Nancy Wardlaw Cunningham and Dorothy (Cunningham) Beattie. Mary O'Brien married Geoffrey James O'Brien in 1943, and died at age 95 years old on August 24, 2016 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Mary Robertson (Cunningham) O'Brien
1920
August 24, 2016
Hobart, Tasmania,, Australia
Female
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    1920
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  • 08/24
    2016

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    August 24, 2016
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    Cause of death
    Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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  • Obituary

    The Mercury, Hobart. Tasmania. 31st August 2016. O'BRIEN, Mary Robertson. Died peacefully on Tuesday, August 24, 2016, at Sandown Village, Hobart. Loving and loved widow of the late Geoffrey James O'Brien of Campbell Town, loved mother of Pip Buchanan, Helen, James and Dan O'Brien, and mother-in-law of Alex, Sue and Patrice, adored grandmother of Richard and Tash, Kathie, Emma, Jonny, Millie, Ashley and Gina.
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    Mary Robertson (Cunningham) O'Brien lived 24 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 96.
    The average age of a Cunningham family member is 72.
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In 1920, in the year that Mary Robertson (Cunningham) O'Brien was born, 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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In 1935, when she was just 15 years old, the BOI's name (the Bureau of Investigation) was changed to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and it officially became a separate agency with the Department of Justice. J. Edgar Hoover, the Chief of the BOI, continued in his office and became the first Director of the FBI. The FBI's responsibility is to "detect and prosecute crimes against the United States".
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