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Ida Watkins 1901 - 1991

Ida Watkins of Sparta, Kent County, MI was born on June 26, 1901, and died at age 89 years old on April 24, 1991.
Ida Watkins
Sparta, Kent County, MI 49345
June 26, 1901
April 24, 1991
Female
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  • 06/26
    1901

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    June 26, 1901
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  • 04/24
    1991

    Death

    April 24, 1991
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    Ida Watkins lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1901, in the year that Ida Watkins was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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In 1927, she was 26 years old when the first "talkie" (a movie with music, songs, and talking), The Jazz Singer, was released. Al Jolson starred as a cantor's son who instead of following in his father's footsteps as expected, becomes a singer of popular songs. Banished by his father, they reconcile on his father's deathbed. It was a tear-jerker and audiences went wild - especially when they heard the songs. Thus begun the demise of silent films and the rise of "talkies".
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