Ronald Joseph Metiva
(1952 - 2018)
Saginaw, Michigan United States
Home in Saginaw, Michigan United States 48603
Joined the army in 1973 and was stationed in Texas before going to Germany.
He played Santa for a German orphanage while overseas; while the kids were in quarantine due to measles. He loved children, he would continue to play Santa up until the year he passed.
He was a volunteer firefighter from zilwaukee. He enjoyed cars and motorcycles, But loved his child most of all.
You would often see him volunteering to hand out food boxes to the poor or trying to help anyone that needed it.
His final occupation was being a school bus driver.
Diagnosed with cancer 2013
Beat it by 2024
Cancer free until 2016,
Feb 2018 passed away due to advanced throat cancer
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In 1952, in the year that Ronald Joseph Metiva was born, on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
In 1961, when he was just 9 years old, on August 13th, East Germany began erection of what would become the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin. In one day, they installed barbed wire entanglements and fences (called Barbed Wire Sunday in Germany). On August 17th, the first concrete elements and large blocks were put in place.
In 1970, by the time he was 18 years old, on April 10th, Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles. (John Lennon had previously told the band that he was leaving but hadn't publicly announced it.) By the end of the year, each Beatle had his own album.
In 1985, Ronald was 33 years old when on March 15th, the first internet domain name was registered - Symbolics.com. Symbolics, Inc., a spinoff of the MIT AI Lab, was a computer manufacturer headquartered in Massachusetts. The company no longer exists and the domain name was sold 25 years later.
In 1996, he was 44 years old when on April 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski (nicknamed the Unabomber) was arrested. His mailed or hand-delivered bombs, sent between 1978 and 1995, killed three people and injured 23 others. Diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Kaczynski is serving 8 life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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