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Opal Downey 1906 - 2000

Opal Downey of Madisonville, Hopkins County, KY was born on May 23, 1906, and died at age 93 years old on March 26, 2000.

Opal Downey

Madisonville, Hopkins County, KY 42431

May 23, 1906

March 26, 2000

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1906

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May 23, 1906

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2000

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March 26, 2000

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Opal Downey lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 93.

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In 1906, in the year that Opal Downey was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."

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In 1928, she was 22 years old when Mickie Mouse was born! He first appeared in Disney's Steamboat Willie, along with Minnie. Although they were in two previous shorts, this was the first to be distributed. Steamboat Willie took advantage of the new technology and was a "talkie" - music was coordinated with the animation. It became the most popular cartoon of its day.

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