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Household of Edna Mae de Kunder

She is married to Clarence Arthur Gerfers.

They got married on March 28, 1934 at San Antonio/Texas (USA), she was 19 years old.


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Notes about Edna Mae de Kunder

Edna Mae DeKunder Gerfers was a daughter born to Fannie Mae Coker and Julius Henry DeKunder. Edna Mae DeKunder was married to Clarence Arthur Gerfers Sr on March 28 1934, in San Antonio,Texas.
A lifelong San Antonian, she was a relative of John Coker, who fought in the Battle of San Jacinto.
Coker, her great-great-uncle, devised the plan to burn Vince's Bridge to prevent Santa Anna's retreat after the battle. For his service in the victory, Coker received 2,000 acres in a land grant from Anson Jones, last President of the Republic of Texas.
Edna Mae was also a great-great granddaughter of Johann Valentin Schulmeier, who was one of the original colonist that founded the settlement that became the city of New Braunfels,Texas.
Gerfers graduated from Alamo Heights High School in 1931 and worked at S.H. Kress downtown for a short while. In 1934, she and Clarence A. Gerfers were married in Coker United Methodist Church.
Edna Mae DeKunder Gerfers, with her husband, owned and operated Gerfers' Store for 31 years. Their business was at the corner of Jones Maltsberger and old North Loop Road from 1946 to 1977, when the airport bought the property as a necessary clear zone for landings.

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    Historical events

    Birthday November 2, 1914

    • The temperature on November 2, 1914 was between 5.3 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
      • July 29 » The Cape Cod Canal opened.
      • August 2 » The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
      • August 17 » World War I: Battle of Stallupönen: The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
      • August 24 » World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
      • September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
      • December 25 » A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.

    Day of marriage March 28, 1934

    • The temperature on March 28, 1934 was between 2.2 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
      • February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
      • April 12 » The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
      • May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
      • July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
      • September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.
      • December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.

    Day of death December 18, 1989

    • The temperature on December 18, 1989 was between 8.9 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1989: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
      • January 4 » Second Gulf of Sidra incident: A pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.
      • June 4 » The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 1,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).
      • June 5 » The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
      • August 22 » Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
      • December 22 » Communist President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu is overthrown by Ion Iliescu after days of bloody confrontations. The deposed dictator and his wife flee Bucharest in a helicopter as protesters erupt in cheers.
      • December 29 » The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble.
    

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