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Wanita Opal Shirk 1921 - 2009

Wanita Opal Shirk of Portland, Jay County, Indiana was born on March 4, 1921, and died at age 88 years old on October 18, 2009.
Wanita Opal Shirk
Portland, Jay County, Indiana 47371
March 4, 1921
October 18, 2009
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Wanita Opal Shirk's History: 1921 - 2009

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  • 03/4
    1921

    Birthday

    March 4, 1921
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  • 10/18
    2009

    Death

    October 18, 2009
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    Wanita Opal Shirk lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1921, in the year that Wanita Opal Shirk was born, in May, the Emergency Quota Act - or Emergency Immigration Act - was passed. The law restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year. It also established an immigration quota in which only 3 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in 1910, could be admitted to America after 1921. Although the Act was supposed to be temporary, it stayed in effect until 1965.
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In 1935, by the time she was merely 14 years old, on August 14, the Social Security Act was signed into law. The purpose was to "provide federal assistance to those unable to work". The law established the Social Security Administration whose primary focus was to "provide aid for the elderly, the unemployed, and children". The Act survived many Supreme Court challenges and the Administration continues until today.
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