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Theodore D Gjennestad 1933 - 1998

Theodore Dean Gjennestad Sr of Lexington, Lexington County, SC was born on March 28, 1933 in Oklahoma United States, and was the father of Theodore Dean Gjennestad Jr.. Theodore Gjennestad died at age 65 years old on November 3, 1998 in Durham, Durham County, NC.

Theodore Dean Gjennestad Sr

Lexington, Lexington County, SC 29073

March 28, 1933

Oklahoma, United States

November 3, 1998

Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, United States

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Theodore Dean Gjennestad Sr. was born to Birger Gjennestad (1895-1960) and Myrtle Agnes Johnson (1910-1986) and had a sister Severina Gjennestad (1932-2002) and a half sibling Richard Bjorn Gjennestad (1936-2016). He married Gladys Helen Fanning in 1953 in Richland South Carolina and they had two sons Theodore Dean Gjennestad Jr., Michael Dean, and a daughter Kristen Cherish Gjennestad.
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March 28, 1933

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Theodore Dean Gjennestad Sr. was born in Oklahoma and lived in Tulsa from 1935 until at least 1940. He married in Richland South Carolina in 1953, and passed away in Durham North Carolina in 1998.
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November 3, 1998

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Durham, Durham County, North Carolina United States
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Theodore D Gjennestad lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 65.

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In 1933, in the year that Theodore D Gjennestad was born, Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.

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In 1952, at the age of 19 years old, Theodore was alive when 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.

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