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Helen Jurkiw 1922 - 2004

Helen Jurkiw of Grosse Pointe, Wayne County, MI was born on February 13, 1922, and died at age 82 years old on October 2, 2004.
Helen Jurkiw
Grosse Pointe, Wayne County, MI 48236
February 13, 1922
October 2, 2004
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  • 02/13
    1922

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    February 13, 1922
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  • 10/2
    2004

    Death

    October 2, 2004
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    Helen Jurkiw lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1922, in the year that Helen Jurkiw was born, on James Joyce's 40th birthday, his book Ulysses was published in France. The book covers the experiences of an Irishman in Dublin on an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Now considered a classic, it was controversial at the time. Due to some sexual content, the book was banned in the U.S. during the 1920's and the U.S. Post Office destroyed 500 copies of the novel.
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In 1943, Helen was 21 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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