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Thelma E Pershall 1908 - 2003

Thelma E Pershall (1908 - 2003)
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Thelma E Pershall
Last Known Residence
Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington 98801
Born
April 8, 1908
Death
March 1, 2003
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Thelma E Pershall of Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington was born on April 8, 1908, and died at age 94 years old on March 1, 2003.

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Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington 98801
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Thelma Pershall passed away at age 94 years old on March 1, 2003. Thelma E Pershall of Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington was born on April 8, 1908.

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Thelma E Pershall lived 19 years longer than the average Pershall family member when she died at the age of 94.
The average age of a Pershall family member is 75.
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1908 - 2003 World Events

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In 1908, in the year that Thelma E Pershall was born, unemployment in the U.S. was at 8.0% and the cost of a first-class stamp was 2 cents while the population in the United States was 88,710,000. The world population was almost 4.4 billion.

In 1936, Thelma was 28 years old when on November 3rd, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was reelected to a second term. He ran against Republican Governor Alf Landon (Kansas), defeating Landon in the popular vote by 60.8% to 36.5%. Vermont and Maine were the only two states in which Landon won. John Nance Garner IV became the Vice-President in this election.

In 1944, Thelma was 36 years old when on December 16th, The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes forest on the Western Front. Lasting for a little over a month, the battle began with a surprise attack by Germany on the Allied forces The U.S. suffered their highest casualties of any operation in World War II - 89,000 were casualties, around 8,600 killed - but Germany also severely depleted their resources and they couldn't be replaced.

In 1956, when she was 48 years old, on May 20th, the U.S. tested the first hydrogen bomb dropped from a plane over Bikini Atoll. Previously, hydrogen bombs had only been tested on the ground. The Atomic Age moved forward.

In 1986, by the time she was 78 years old, on January 28th, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch. All seven crew members died. The cause of the explosion was later found to be a failed O-ring. The O-ring failure was due to the unusually cold conditions at Cape Canaveral.

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