Marjorie Ruth Adam

Female28 July 1922–11 August 2019

Brief Life History of Marjorie Ruth

When Marjorie Ruth Adam was born on 28 July 1922, in Arlington Heights, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Frederick Albert Adam, was 41 and her mother, Anna Maria Meding, was 25. She lived in Wheeling, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1930. She died on 11 August 2019, in Saint Charles, Missouri, United States, at the age of 97.

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Family Time Line

Mark Wilbur Rightmire
1916–2004
Marjorie Ruth Adam
1922–2019

Sources (5)

  • Marjorie R Rightmire, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Marjorie Ruth Adam, "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940"
  • Marjorie in entry for Mark W Rightmire, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Age 1

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1925 · Woman's World's Fair

Age 3

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

1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

Age 26

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

Hebrew: The Scripture name, in Hebrew, Adham, signifying 'man;' literally earthy, red earth; Rudolph, however, says the name in Ethiopic means ' to be fair, beautiful.' Hence the nurse-name Addy, little Adam.

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