When Nellie Erma Witten was born on 8 March 1922, in Arkansas, United States, her father, Lansford Witten, was 49 and her mother, Clara Viola Bond, was 33. She married Franklin Clarence Gray on 14 November 1944, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. She lived in Poplar Bluff, Butler, Missouri, United States in 1930 and Wilmington, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 27 March 1987, in Bellflower, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress, Orange, California, United States.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
North German: patronymic from Witte .
English: variant of Whitton .
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