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Omer J Torkelson 1905 - 1995

Omer J Torkelson of Sioux Rapids, Buena Vista County, IA was born on June 29, 1905. Omer Torkelson was married to Kathleen Elizabeth Dowling, and died at age 89 years old on June 3, 1995.
Omer J Torkelson
Sioux Rapids, Buena Vista County, IA 50585
June 29, 1905
June 3, 1995
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  • 06/29
    1905

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    June 29, 1905
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  • 06/3
    1995

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    June 3, 1995
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    Omer J Torkelson lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1905, in the year that Omer J Torkelson was born, the German born physicist, Albert Einstein, proposed the Special Theory of Relativity: 1) that observers can never detect uniform motion except relative to other objects and that 2) unlike the velocity of massive objects, the speed of light is a constant and is the same for all observers independent of their constant velocity toward or away from the light source. Not such simple concepts that lead to the equation everyone now knows: E = mc2.
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In 1933, by the time he was 28 years old, 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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