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Myrtle Deventer 1897 - 1984

Myrtle Deventer of Auburn, De Kalb County, Indiana was born on October 16, 1897, and died at age 86 years old in July 1984.
Myrtle Deventer
Auburn, De Kalb County, Indiana 46706
October 16, 1897
July 1984
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  • 10/16
    1897

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    October 16, 1897
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  • 07/dd
    1984

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    July 1984
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    Myrtle Deventer lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1897, in the year that Myrtle Deventer was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1945, she was 48 years old 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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