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Melvina Potvin 1894 - 1981

Melvina Potvin of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota was born on February 18, 1894, and died at age 87 years old in March 1981.

Melvina Potvin
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Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota 55428
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February 18, 1894
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    Great-grandma Potvin died when I was 7 months old days after getting an influenza vaccination she did not want to get. Neither her daughter nor I will get flu vaccinations. Grandma Potvin is responsible for my name, I was supposed to me named Jessica, but she saw me and said that I looked like a princess. So I was named Victoria Anne instead. Grandma Potvin was an abandoned wife. She grew her own food for herself and her two young children during the Depression. She was also and excellent seamstress. How I would give two years of my life to spend a month with her... oh what she cold tell me about gardening, sewing, and being a determined woman!
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    Melvina Potvin lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1894, in the year that Melvina Potvin was born, large reserves of oil were discovered on the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Previously thought to be "useless" land - not even good for farming - the tribe had bought the land themselves. The discovery of oil made the Osage the "richest group of people in the world" at the time.
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In 1934, she was 40 years old when on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.
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Potvin, Paul (Sep 7, 1942 - Jan 28, 1995) Potvin, Marie (May 2, 1875 - Dec 1977) Potvin, Ronald (Apr 7, 1929 - Dec 1973) Potvin, Eva (Jun 27, 1898 - Apr 1983) Potvin, Eva (Dec 4, 1896 - Dec 13, 1996) Potvin, Simone (Jul 24, 1915 - Mar 7, 2001) Potvin, Wilfred (Mar 11, 1905 - Sep 1980) Potvin, Marie (Oct 16, 1901 - Feb 18, 2003) Potvin, Blanche (Sep 8, 1909 - Nov 7, 1997) Potvin, Raoul (Mar 12, 1926 - Jan 18, 2007)
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