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Velma I Harper Jewell 1933 - 2010

Velma I Harper Jewell of Riddle, Douglas County, Oregon was born on April 23, 1933, and died at age 77 years old on August 31, 2010.
Velma I Harper Jewell
Riddle, Douglas County, Oregon 97469
April 23, 1933
August 31, 2010
Female
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  • 04/23
    1933

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    April 23, 1933
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  • 08/31
    2010

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    August 31, 2010
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    Velma I Harper Jewell lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 77.
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In 1933, in the year that Velma I Harper Jewell 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 1945, when she was just 12 years old, on February 19th, US Marines landed on the island of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Iwo Jima began. Lasting 5 weeks, it was some of the bloodiest and fiercest fighting in the Pacific theater during World War II. The occupying Japanese forces were heavily armed and there were 21,000 Japanese soldiers on the island at the beginning of the battle. Only 216 Japanese soldiers were captured afterwards - the rest had been killed in action or committed suicide. 6,800 American soldiers died but the Americans took control of the island.
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