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Gwenyth Lillian Lorraine Maxwell 1916 - 2014

Gwenyth Lillian Lorraine (Maxwell) Franklin of Ballarat, City of Ballarat County, VIC Australia was born in 1916 in Ballarat. Gwenyth Franklin was married to Wilfred Franklin in 1938, and died at age 97 years old on May 23, 2014.
Gwenyth Lillian Lorraine (Maxwell) Franklin
Ballarat, City of Ballarat County, VIC Australia
1916
Ballarat, City of Ballarat County, VIC, Australia
May 23, 2014
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  • 1916

    Birthday

    1916
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    Ballarat, City of Ballarat County, VIC Australia
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  • 05/23
    2014

    Death

    May 23, 2014
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Gwenyth Lillian Lorraine Maxwell lived 26 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 98.
    The average age of a Maxwell family member is 72.
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In 1916, in the year that Gwenyth Lillian Lorraine Maxwell was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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In 1924, Gwenyth was only 8 years old when in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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Gwenyth Maxwell's Family Tree & Friends

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Wilfred Franklin

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Gwenyth Lillian Lorraine Maxwell

1938
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