Iona Kathryn ( Katie) Cravens Asbridge
1916–2002 (Age 86)
Missouri, United States
The Life of Iona Kathryn ( Katie) Cravens
Iona Kathryn ( Katie) Cravens Asbridge was born on 14 May 1916, in Missouri, United States. She married Sherman Mallieu Cravens on 7 June 1942, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. She died on 20 May 2002, in Brighton, Macoupin, Illinois, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States.
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Family Time Line
Iona Kathryn ( Katie) Cravens Asbridge
1916–2002
Sherman Mallieu Cravens
1903–1998
Marriage: 7 June 1942
Spouse & Children
1916–2002Female
1903–1998Male
MARRIAGE
7 June 1942
St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
7 June 1942
St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
World Events (8)
1925 · Woman's World's Fair
Age 9
The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women
1931 · The Bagnell Dam and Lake of the Ozarks
Age 15
The Bagnell Dam on the Osage River was completed in 1931. The dam was built to generate hydroelectric power to the Osage Power Plant. The building of the dam created Lake of the Ozarks, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, and over 1,000 miles of shoreline.
1942
Age 26
On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.
Name Meaning
English: probably a variant of Ashbridge .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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