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Velia N Topalis 1914 - 2006

Velia N Topalis of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH was born on July 17, 1914, and died at age 92 years old on December 5, 2006.
Velia N Topalis
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH 44134
July 17, 1914
December 5, 2006
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  • 07/17
    1914

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    July 17, 1914
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  • 12/5
    2006

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    December 5, 2006
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    Velia N Topalis lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1914, in the year that Velia N Topalis 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 1942, she was 28 years old when on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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