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Quilla Purkey 1909 - 1985

Quilla Purkey of Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas was born on June 10, 1909, and died at age 76 years old in June 1985.
Quilla Purkey
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas 67204
June 10, 1909
June 1985
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  • 06/10
    1909

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    June 10, 1909
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  • 06/dd
    1985

    Death

    June 1985
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    Quilla Purkey lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1909, in the year that Quilla Purkey was born, the U.S. penny was changed to the Abraham Lincoln design. The Lincoln penny was so popular that it soon had to be rationed and it sold on the secondary market for a quarter. Abraham Lincoln was the first historical figure to be on a U.S. coin - which was released to commemorate his 100th birthday. This penny was also the first U.S. cent to include the words "In God We Trust.".
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In 1945, Quilla was 36 years old when on April 12th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. At 1p, he was sitting for a portrait when he complained that he had a "terrific pain" in the back of his head and collapsed. A doctor was summoned and the doctor gave him a shot of adrenaline into his heart. It didn't help and he was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. A slow moving train took him back to Washington D.C. while thousands of mourners lined the tracks. He was buried at his home in Hyde Park, New York.
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