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Personal data Edna Mae de Kunder 


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.
      • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
      • July 29 » The Cape Cod Canal opened.
      • August 28 » World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
      • October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
      • November 15 » Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
      • December 14 » Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    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.
      • January 15 » The 8.0 Mw  Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people.
      • March 26 » The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
      • May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
      • June 26 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
      • July 20 » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
      • December 29 » Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

    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.
      • April 26 » People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
      • May 29 » Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
      • 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 16 » Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
      • July 26 » A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
      • November 13 » Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.
    

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