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Myrtle Atkins 1923 - 2009

Myrtle Atkins of Olympia Fields, Cook County, IL was born on March 22, 1923, and died at age 85 years old on February 24, 2009.
Myrtle Atkins
Olympia Fields, Cook County, IL 60461
March 22, 1923
February 24, 2009
Female
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  • 03/22
    1923

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    March 22, 1923
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  • 02/24
    2009

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    February 24, 2009
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    Myrtle Atkins lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1923, in the year that Myrtle Atkins was born, on August 2, President Warren G. Harding died in office, apparently of a heart attack. He was staying at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco after completing a nationwide tour. Suffering from cramps, indigestion, a fever and shortness of breath, his doctor thought he had food poisoning. After several days of being ill, he suddenly shuddered, slumped over, and died. There were rumors of foul play (some thought that his wife had poisoned him because of his affairs) but no evidence has ever been found.
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In 1964, at the age of 41 years old, Myrtle 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.
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