Shirley Josephine Akers

Female14 November 1938–January 1973

Brief Life History of Shirley Josephine

When Shirley Josephine Akers was born on 14 November 1938, her father, William Boyd Akers, was 38 and her mother, Tina Ethel Hunt, was 31. She died in January 1973, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Hot Coal Cemetery, Sophia, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States.

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Jack Rudolph Farley
1934–2013
Shirley Josephine Akers
1938–1973

Sources (2)

  • Shirley Akers Farley, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Shirley Josephine Farley in entry for Jack Rudolph Farley, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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World Events (8)

1941

Age 3

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

1941 · The Four Freedoms

Age 3

President Roosevelt spoke in front of Congress and gave a speech on what Freedoms everyone should be granted. First being the Freedom of Speech. Second, the freedom of Religion, Third, The Freedom from Want, and Fourth, the Freedom from Fear. Being a big deal, FDR didn't just say that all people should have these freedoms because Americans already expected these freedoms.

1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

Age 10

The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

Name Meaning

English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Ackers .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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