Pearl Myrtle Gravley
Updated Feb 06, 2019
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Pearl Myrtle Gravley (1906 - 1996)

Pearl Myrtle Gravley was born on August 20, 1906 at Slayton, Murray, Minnesota. She was born to Aslag Oscar Gravley and Ella "Ellen" Matilda (Pierson) Gravley, with siblings Ruth, Orville, Elmer, Esther, Lenore, and Kenneth. She died on January 29, 1996 at Victorville, San Bernardino, California at 89 years old.
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 at Slayton, Murray, Minnesota,

Death

 on at Victorville, San Bernardino, California,

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Average Age

Pearl Myrtle Gravley lived 22 years longer than the average Gravley family member when she died at the age of 89.

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Family

Father: Aslag Oscar Gravley
Mother: Ella "Ellen" Matilda (Pierson) Gravley
Siblings: Ruth Ardella (Gravley) Morgan, Orville Sigvor Gravley, Elmer Carlton Gravley, Esther Adeline (Gravley) Larson, Lenore Berdella Gravley, and Kenneth Gordon Gravley

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1906 - In the year that Pearl Myrtle Gravley 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."

1908 - At the age of only 2 years old, Pearl was alive when the Federal Bureau of Investigation was established as the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States; it simultaneously served as the nation's prime federal law enforcement agency. Stanley Finch was the first Chief (now called Director).

1933 - When she was 27 years old, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.

1937 - When she was 31 years old, on May 6th, the German zeppelin the Hindenburg caught fire and blew up. The Hindenburg was a passenger ship traveling to Frankfurt Germany. It tried to dock in New Jersey, one of the stops, and something went wrong - it blew up. Thirty-six people were killed out of the 97 on board - 13 passengers, 22 crewmen, and one ground worker. The reasons for the explosion are still disputed.

1996 - In the year of Pearl Myrtle Gravley's passing, on July 5th, the first cloned mammal - "Dolly the Sheep" - was born in Scotland. She had three mothers. Dolly lived to be 6 years old and produced 6 lambs. Since, other sheep have been cloned as well as horses, pigs, deer, and bulls.

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Pearl Myrtle Gravley died on January 29, 1996 at Victorville, San Bernardino, California at 89 years of age. There is no known cause of death. She was born on August 20, 1906 at Slayton, Murray, Minnesota. She was born to Aslag Oscar Gravley and Ella "Ellen" Matilda (Pierson) Gravley, with siblings Ruth, Orville, Elmer, Esther, Lenore, and Kenneth.

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