Brief Life History of Louie George
When Louie George Pekema was born on 29 December 1921, in Leslie, Searcy, Arkansas, United States, his father, Sippe Jelleszoon Pekema, was 31 and his mother, Bertha Ray Cypert, was 19. He lived in Ward One, Rapides, Louisiana, United States in 1940. He died on 18 September 2012, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Houston, Harris, Texas, United States.
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- Louie G Pekema in household of Sippie J Pekema, "United States Census, 1940"
- L George Pekema, "Find A Grave Index"
- George Pekema in entry for Ethel Jannette Williams Pekema, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1931
Established in 1931 on farmland on the outskirts of Houston, the cemetery was constructed on the then dirt surfaced Katy Road where, according to General Manager Lynda Seaman, farmers had to drive their cattle away from burial services. Incorporated as Woodlawn Cemetery, the corporation’s directors were J.W Metzler, J.W Metzler, Jr., Ben Dancer and Mrs. Phylura Skalinder. The cemetery, located at the corner of Antoine Drive and the Katy Freeway, was originally designed for upright headstones and the layout was planned with winding roads-a design made popular by Adolph Strauch with his landscaped lawn-park plans in the mid 1800s. In 1940, the name was changed to Woodlawn Garden of Memories, when the cemetery joined the trend to become a memorial park; a movement begun by Hubert Eaton as an innovative type of cemetery at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles. He initiated the use of flat bronze grave markers and included the use of sculptural pieces as decoration. By 1931, imitations of Eaton’s project had begun to appear throughout the United States and there were over 600 memorial parks.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
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Variant spelling of Lewie or Louis , currently in fashion.
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