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Mary W Riggan 1933 - 2009

Mary W Riggan of Durham, Durham County, NC was born on August 7, 1933, and died at age 76 years old on December 13, 2009.
Mary W Riggan
Durham, Durham County, NC 27704
August 7, 1933
December 13, 2009
Female
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    1933

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    August 7, 1933
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  • 12/13
    2009

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    December 13, 2009
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    Mary W Riggan lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1933, in the year that Mary W Riggan was born, Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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In 1945, at the age of merely 12 years old, Mary was alive when on February 19th, US Marines landed on the island of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Iwo Jima began. Lasting 5 weeks, it was some of the bloodiest and fiercest fighting in the Pacific theater during World War II. The occupying Japanese forces were heavily armed and there were 21,000 Japanese soldiers on the island at the beginning of the battle. Only 216 Japanese soldiers were captured afterwards - the rest had been killed in action or committed suicide. 6,800 American soldiers died but the Americans took control of the island.
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