Lortz Family Tree » Viola Alfretta Best (1891-1988)
Personal data Viola Alfretta Best
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8- She was born on November 27, 1891 in Licking, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States.Sources 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Resident:
- in the year 1900: Licking, Clarion, Pennsylvania, USA.Source 3
- in the year 1956: Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, USA.Source 4
- in the year 1910: Strattanville, Clarion, Pennsylvania, USA.Source 5
- in the year 1920: New Bethlehem, Clarion, Pennsylvania, USA.Source 2
- in the year 1930: McKeesport, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.Source 6
- in the year 1939: McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA.Source 4
- in the year 1946: McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA.Source 4
- in the year 1950: McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA.Source 4
- in the year 1944: McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA.Source 4
- She died on December 2, 1988 in Irwin, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, she was 97 years old.Sources 7, 8
- She is buried in Parker Presbyterian Cemetery, Parker, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Find A Grave Memorial# 153716209
- A child of Charles Harvey Best and Emma Reginia Kemery
Household of Viola Alfretta Best
She is married to John Elton Harkless.
They got married in the year 1908 at Pennsylvania, USA, she was 16 years old.
Child(ren):
- Armand Wilfred Harkless 1918-1983
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Sources
- Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=44120712&pid=16345
/ Ancestry.com - 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1920; Census Place: New Bethlehem, Clarion, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1551; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 74; Image: 1151 / Ancestry.com
- 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1900; Census Place: Licking, Clarion, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1394; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 0005; FHL microfilm: 1241394 / Ancestry.com
- U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1910; Census Place: Strattanville, Clarion, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1329; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0006; FHL microfilm: 1375342 / Ancestry.com
- 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1930; Census Place: McKeesport, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1966; Page: 41B; Enumeration District: 0683; Image: 1008.0; FHL microfilm: 2341700 / Ancestry.com
- Social Security Death Index, Number: 174-50-0812; Issue State: Pennsylvania; Issue Date: 1973 / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday November 27, 1891
- The temperature on November 27, 1891 was about 1.1 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1891: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- January 29 » Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
- March 17 » SSUtopia collides with HMSAnson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
- May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
- October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.
- December 22 » Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.
Day of death December 2, 1988
- The temperature on December 2, 1988 was between -1 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
- February 5 » Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
- May 6 » All thirty-six passengers and crew were killed when Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into Mt. Torghatten in Brønnøy.
- July 8 » The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.
- October 19 » The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
- November 15 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
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