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Ruth P Gourlay 1914 - 2001

Ruth P Gourlay of Niles, Berrien County, MI was born on September 6, 1914, and died at age 87 years old on November 26, 2001.
Ruth P Gourlay
Niles, Berrien County, MI 49120
September 6, 1914
November 26, 2001
Female
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  • 09/6
    1914

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    September 6, 1914
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  • 11/26
    2001

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    November 26, 2001
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    Ruth P Gourlay lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1914, in the year that Ruth P Gourlay was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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In 1934, she was 20 years old when on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.
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