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Opal B Cates 1921 - 2002

Opal B Cates of Ceres, Stanislaus County, CA was born on December 23, 1921, and died at age 80 years old on December 6, 2002.
Opal B Cates
Ceres, Stanislaus County, CA 95307
December 23, 1921
December 6, 2002
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  • 12/23
    1921

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    December 23, 1921
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  • 12/6
    2002

    Death

    December 6, 2002
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    Opal B Cates lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 80.
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In 1921, in the year that Opal B Cates was born, on November 11th, the first burial was held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The body of an unknown soldier - selected by Army Sgt. Edward F. Younger who was highly decorated for valor and received the Distinguished Service Cross in "The Great War" - was brought back from France (World War 1) and placed in the newly completed tomb. President Warren G. Harding officiated at the interment ceremonies.
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In 1964, by the time she was 43 years old, 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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