Zella C Ritchey (1912 - 1996)

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Daniel & Sarah (Rippey) Ritchey

Added: Oct 09, 2009

5 generations

Added: Feb 14, 2009

George L. and Mariah J.(foor) Ritchey

Added: May 19, 2006

Half brothers Howard Allen & Earl Ritchey

Added: Jan 17, 2004

Earl Ritchey & two daughter`s Dorthy & Nina

Added: Jan 08, 2004

Kenneth, Vivian and Gene Eberhart

Added: Jan 04, 2004

Four Eberhart sisters

Added: Jan 04, 2004

Earl & Ivy Ritchey w/ Grandfather Selba Hutsell

Added: Jan 02, 2004

Earl & Ivy Ritchey w/ grandmother Sarah Hutsell

Added: Jan 02, 2004

My grandparents Earl & Vivian Ritchey

Added: Dec 25, 2003

Granddaughter & Grandmother

Added: Dec 22, 2003

Ritchy/Duffield Wedding

Added: Jul 30, 2001

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In 1912, in the year that Zella C Ritchey was born, Arizona was admitted to the United States in February (on Valentine's Day). It became the 48th state in the Union. Previously a Spanish - then Mexican - territory, the U.S. paid $15 million dollars for the area in 1848. Arizona was the last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the United States.

In 1941, by the time she was 29 years old, in his State of the Union address on January 6th, President Roosevelt detailed the "four freedoms" that everyone in the world should have: Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, and Freedom from fear. In the same speech, he outlined the benefits of democracy which he said were economic opportunity, employment, social security, and the promise of "adequate health care".

In 1959, she was 47 years old when on August 8th, Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States. The US flag was changed to show 50 stars.

In 1966, she was 54 years old when on July 1st, Medicare became available after President Johnson signed into law the Medicare Act in 1965. President Truman had received the first Medicare card since he had been the first to propose national healthcare law. insurance.

In 1996, in the year of Zella C Ritchey's passing, on April 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski (nicknamed the Unabomber) was arrested. His mailed or hand-delivered bombs, sent between 1978 and 1995, killed three people and injured 23 others. Diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Kaczynski is serving 8 life sentences without the possibility of parole.