Walter Decker (1879 - 1952)

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Walter's Family

Gustave Decker

Mary Elizabeth Ryan Decker

Walter Decker

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Gustave Decker

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Mary Elizabeth Ryan Decker

Unknown - Unknown

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Dana L (Decker) Watrous

Robbie Cornwall Watrous

Jeremiah David Van Kleeck

Erika Lynn Decker

Serenity Decker

Annie L. (Decker)Parsons

Debra D Decker

Rosmary Decker

Leslie Decker

Astra Decker

Edwin Blauvelt Decker Sr

Nellie Wolfcale & Buckeye School 1915

Roy Decker - Marysville, Ohio

Horace Lacey Decker age 80

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In 1879, in the year that Walter Decker was born, on April 26th, the National Park - later renamed the Royal National Park - the 2nd oldest national park in the world, was formally proclaimed in New South Wales, Australia. It was the first park to have the word "national" in its name.

In 1929, when he was 50 years old, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre happened on February 14th. In Chicago, seven men from the North Side Irish gang were gunned down by Al Capone's South Side Italian gang at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Al Capone was making a successful move to take over Chicago's organized crime. But the St. Valentine's Day massacre also resulted in a public outcry against all gangsters.

In 1933, he was 54 years old when on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.

In 1946, at the age of 67 years old, Walter was alive when pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock's book "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" was published. It sold half a million copies in the first six months. Aside from the Bible, it became the best selling book of the 20th century. A generation of Baby Boomers were raised by the advice of Dr. Spock.

In 1952, in the year of Walter Decker's passing, 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.