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Opal J Gaston 1915 - 1997

Opal J Gaston of Junction City, Geary County, KS was born on September 2, 1915, and died at age 81 years old on May 28, 1997.
Opal J Gaston
Junction City, Geary County, KS 66441
September 2, 1915
May 28, 1997
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  • 09/2
    1915

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    September 2, 1915
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  • 05/28
    1997

    Death

    May 28, 1997
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    Opal J Gaston lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1915, in the year that Opal J Gaston was born, in May, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo. The Lusitania was a British passenger ship that was sailing from New York to Liverpool England. She sank in 18 minutes - 1,198 died and 761 survived. While travelers were the main casualty - and commodity - the Lusitania did carry wartime weapons. "Remember the Lusitania" became the rallying cry of World War 1.
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In 1943, by the time she was 28 years old, on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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