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Retha Owens 1933 - 2008

Retha Owens of Decatur, Benton County, AR was born on August 4, 1933, and died at age 75 years old on November 19, 2008.
Retha Owens
Decatur, Benton County, AR 72722
August 4, 1933
November 19, 2008
Female
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    1933

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    August 4, 1933
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  • 11/19
    2008

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    November 19, 2008
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    Retha Owens lived 5 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1933, in the year that Retha Owens was born, 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.
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In 1949, by the time she was 16 years old, on January 25th, the first Emmy Awards (for television) were handed out in Los Angeles. Shirley Dinsdale won for the Most Outstanding Television Personality and Pantomime Quiz Time earned an Emmy for the Most Popular Television Program.
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