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Berniece Skeels 1920 - 2006

Berniece Skeels of Grinnell, Poweshiek County, IA was born on July 8, 1920, and died at age 85 years old on May 30, 2006.

Berniece Skeels
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Grinnell, Poweshiek County, IA 50112
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July 8, 1920
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Berniece Skeels Berniece Skeels (1920 - 2006)
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In 1920, in the year that Berniece Skeels was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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In 1934, she was just 14 years old when on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.
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Skeels, Wyman (Sep 28, 1915 - Mar 11, 2003) Skeels, Virna (Mar 25, 1917 - Jun 29, 1996) Skeels, Donald (Dec 28, 1921 - Aug 8, 1992) Skeels, Herbert (Nov 2, 1884 - Dec 1967) Skeels, Lulia (Aug 12, 1889 - May 1979) Skeels, Mattie (Jul 25, 1891 - Sep 1980) Skeels, Jeannette (May 22, 1921 - Oct 14, 1998) Skeels, Clarence (Mar 25, 1897 - Dec 1969) Skeels, Thomas (Feb 24, 1881 - Sep 1966) Skeels, Louise (Mar 2, 1893 - Oct 1986)
Skeels, Charles (May 12, 1946 - Apr 11, 2007) Skeels, Henrietta (Jul 22, 1894 - Aug 1983) Skeels, Lucien (Aug 23, 1896 - Jul 1978) Skeels, Charles (Oct 21, 1907 - Apr 1987) Skeels, Gertrude (Jul 2, 1910 - May 1974) Skeels, Brian (Apr 1, 1958 - Dec 20, 1996) Skeels, Leo (Mar 25, 1922 - Oct 30, 2000) Skeels, Irving (Apr 11, 1886 - Sep 1954) Skeels, Bertha (Mar 17, 1899 - Jun 1985) Skeels, Steven (Jun 11, 1963 - Sep 4, 2007)
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