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Retta Shanks 1914 - 1982

Retta Shanks of Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri was born on May 18, 1914, and died at age 68 years old in June 1982.

Retta Shanks
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Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri 64507
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May 18, 1914
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June 1982
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In 1914, in the year that Retta Shanks was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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In 1927, when she was just 13 years old, aviator and media darling Charles Lindbergh, age 25, made the first successful solo TransAtlantic flight. "Lucky Lindy" took off from Long Island in New York and flew to Paris, covering  3,600 statute miles and flying for 33 1⁄2-hours. His plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" was a fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane designed by both Lindbergh and the manufacturer's chief engineer.
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Shanks, Peter (Born Jul 16, 1821) Davis, Julia Ann (Born Mar) Shanks, Pauline (Nov 17, 1938 - Aug 9, 2006) Shanks, Eleanor (Sep 16, 1913 - Jan 1992) Shanks, Stewart (Jun 5, 1911 - Aug 1981) Shanks, Evangeline (Mar 12, 1923 - Apr 17, 2009) Shanks, Alice (Oct 19, 1911 - Nov 13, 2006) Shanks, Susan (Dec 6, 1885 - May 1973) Shanks, Rose (Nov 29, 1917 - Jan 22, 2004) Shanks, James (Sep 17, 1924 - Aug 19, 2011)
Shanks, James (Jul 2, 1943 - Jan 9, 2007) Shanks, Joseph (Apr 30, 1917 - Apr 8, 2004) Shanks, Carl (Jun 21, 1907 - Nov 1976) Shanks, Fred (Jan 18, 1897 - Oct 1973) Shanks, Donald (Jan 16, 1928 - Sep 1990) Shanks, Elric (Mar 2, 1905 - Oct 1979) Shanks, Bernice (Nov 28, 1922 - Dec 7, 2008) Shanks, Eleanor (Aug 1, 1920 - Jan 1978) Shanks, Catherine (Aug 16, 1922 - Feb 6, 1993) Shanks, Ronald (Jun 15, 1929 - Nov 1981)
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