Donald Rinker Pedelty
1903–1997 (Age 94)
Wheaton, Traverse, Minnesota, United States
The Life of Donald Rinker
When Donald Rinker Pedelty was born on 21 February 1903, in Wheaton, Traverse, Minnesota, United States, his father, Herbert Burdette Pedelty, was 38 and his mother, Sarah L. Rinkler, was 18. He married Bernice Mary Leavitt on 28 December 1927, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. He died on 29 September 1997, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 94.
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Family Time Line
Donald Rinker Pedelty
1903–1997
Bernice Mary Leavitt
1904–1997
Marriage: 28 December 1927
Spouse & Children
1903–1997Male
1904–1997Female
MARRIAGE
28 December 1927
Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
28 December 1927
Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Parents & Siblings
- Herbert Burdette Pedelty
1864–1939Male
1884–1963Female
siblings
(1)
1903–1997Male
World Events (8)
1904
Age 1
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1906 · The End of Capital Punishment
Age 3
Between the state's entry into the Union and 1906, 27 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. Public opinion soon shifted against the death penalty in the state and was formally abolished in 1911. Since its abolishment, there have been 23 attempts to reinstate the death penalty, but none of these bills passed the state legislature.
1929
Age 26
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
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Sources (1)
- Donald R. Pedalty in entry for Bruce Donald Pedalty, "Minnesota Birth Index, 1935-2002"
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