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Verda Freese 1916 - 2011

Verda Freese of Cedar Rapids, Linn County, IA was born on January 7, 1916, and died at age 95 years old on August 19, 2011.
Verda Freese
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, IA 52402
January 7, 1916
August 19, 2011
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  • 01/7
    1916

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    January 7, 1916
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  • 08/19
    2011

    Death

    August 19, 2011
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    Verda Freese lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1916, in the year that Verda Freese was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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In 1921, she was merely 5 years old when on November 11th, the first burial was held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The body of an unknown soldier - selected by Army Sgt. Edward F. Younger who was highly decorated for valor and received the Distinguished Service Cross in "The Great War" - was brought back from France (World War 1) and placed in the newly completed tomb. President Warren G. Harding officiated at the interment ceremonies.
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